# Presentation: 467588

##  Consumer Issues

**Food Animal Concerns Trust**
- Dr. Richard Wood Executive Director
- Steven Roach, Food Safety Program Manager

- FDA Animal Feed Safety System (AFSS)
- Stakeholder Meeting
- September 23 – 24, 2003

## Support for interventionsinside the farm gate

- Processing has been the primary intervention point for addressing food safety.
- Its impact on foodborne disease is mixed.
- Slaughter and processing steps need to be combined with preharvest controls.
- A farm-to-fork food safety system must include interventions within the farm gate.

## What are the risks to food safety and human health that must be addressed in a comprehensive feed safety system? 

## Priority Feed Safety Risks

**Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy**

## Priority Feed Safety Risks

**Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy**
- 1.  Close the loopholes.

## Priority Feed Safety Risks

**Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy**
- 1.  Close the loopholes:
- Prohibit poultry litter in cattle feed.

## Priority Feed Safety Risks

**Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy**
- 1.  Close the loopholes:
- Prohibit poultry litter in cattle feed.
- b.  Require dedicated equipment for handling prohibited materials.

## Priority Feed Safety Risks

**Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy**
- 1.  Close the loopholes:
- Prohibit poultry litter in cattle feed.
- b.  Require dedicated equipment for handling prohibited materials.
- 	Develop a test for prohibited proteins that could detect prohibited proteins.

## Priority Feed Safety Risks

**Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy**
- 1.  Close the loopholes:
- Prohibit poultry litter in cattle feed.
- b.  Require dedicated equipment for handling prohibited materials.
- 	Develop a test for prohibited proteins that could detect prohibited proteins.
- 2.  Fully enforce the feed ban.

## Priority Feed Safety Risks

**Pathogens in Feed**

## Priority Feed Safety Risks

**Pathogens in Feed**
- Establish surveillance of animal feed for microbial contamination, integrating that surveillance with the surveillance of food and humans.

## Priority Feed Safety Risks

**Pathogens in Feed**
- Establish surveillance of animal feed for microbial contamination, integrating that surveillance with the surveillance of food and humans.
- Establish HACCP programs across the animal feed industry to minimize Salmonella.

## Priority Feed Safety Risks

**Pathogens in Feed**
- Establish surveillance of animal feed for microbial contamination, integrating that surveillance with the surveillance of food and humans.
- Establish HACCP programs across the animal feed industry to minimize Salmonella.
- Implement a Salmonella-negative standard for animal feed.

## Priority Feed Safety Risks

**Feed Additives**
- Drug Residues
- 	Medicated feeds left over in the equipment from one batch may contaminate the next batch of feed that is not medicated.

## Priority Feed Safety Risks

**Feed Additives**
- Drug Residues
- 	Medicated feeds left over in the equipment from one batch may contaminate the next batch of feed that is not medicated.
- Non-therapeutic antibiotics
- 	Prudent use guidelines for therapeutic use needs to be extended routine uses.

## Priority Feed Safety Risks

**Feed Additives**
- Drug Residues
- 	Medicated feeds left over in the equipment from one batch may contaminate the next batch of feed that is not medicated.
- Non-therapeutic antibiotics
- 	Prudent use guidelines for therapeutic use needs to be extended routine uses.
- Alternative additives:  enzymes, antibodies, phages, competitive exclusion bacteria.

## Priority Feed Safety Risks

**Contaminants of Feeds or Feed Ingredients**

- Chemical:  dioxins, PCB’s, pesticides and other agrichemicals.
- Heavy metals:  lead, mercury, and cadmium.
- Mycotoxins:  toxic substances produced by molds

## Priority Feed Safety Risks

**Source Material of Greatest Risk**
- Downers as a feed protein source.
- 	Beyond a concern about BSE, downers carry a higher incidence of foodborne pathogens and illegal drug residues.
- The use of reclaimed industrial wastes.
- The use of recycled animal waste.

## Components of aComprehensive Feed Safety System

- Establish a mix of voluntary actions and regulations.
- Enforce the current feed related policies at FDA
- Require the “riskiest” materials to have the greatest regulation.
- Provide an integrated surveillance system.
- Act within a transparent decision-making process.
- Recognize that a comprehensive Animal Feed Safety System does not stop at the feed distributor’s door.