Protein blenders, in between the renderers in this country and the people on the farms feeding cattle is a huge system of brokers, feed mills, protein blenders, distributors. Some people only handle this stuff over the phone. Others have trucks and haul it, and it's very complex. Those people involved in that also have the option of separating or not separating it, and many feed mills have simply gone to absolutely no prohibited material in their operation if they're making feeds for a variety of animals including ruminants. If it's a bag of feed and these bags are printed, then it has to be on the bag itself.
Many bags just have a feed tag on it.
It must be very prominent on that sewn in feed tag. Again, they have to keep records to track it, both incoming and outgoing, and keep those records for one year. People that feel ruminants, and this falls into two large categories, producers that mix feed on their farm and producers that buy a complete feed and don't do any mixing at all. Again, they have to maintain all incoming feed invoices so that they can have proof or identification of whether they're getting prohibited materials. They have to keep these labels, and certainly they have to obey the label, and the paper work has to be made available to FDA and the state feed inspectors on request.