Your Opinion Needed to Present to FDA – Truth about Pet Food
In early February 2023, the FDA is hosting a webinar regarding their relationship with AAFCO – specifically the pet food/animal feed ingredient approval process. We have requested to provide a presentation (consumer opinions) in this webinar and we would like your input to base our presentation on.
What do you know about how new pet food/animal feed ingredients are approved? As example, recently Black Soldier Fly Larvae was approved as an ingredient in dog food. Do you know how this ingredient was approved? What was required in order for it to be approved for use in dog food?
The ingredient approval process is what FDA is asking for opinion on in this webinar. The FDA states:
“The purpose of this meeting is to specifically look at how to improve FDA’s role in the AAFCO feed ingredient definition process and how FDA could gather stakeholder input on the safety of each pending ingredient definition.”
The agency is only allowing presenters to give input on the following four questions…
- What steps can FDA take to improve stakeholder understanding of FDA’s engagement in AAFCO’s feed ingredient definition process and better communicate this information with the public?
- What changes to FDA’s role in AAFCO’s feed ingredient definition process would be helpful to stakeholders and why?
- If FDA made a list of AAFCO feed ingredient definition requests publicly available, where would stakeholders prefer to find such a list and what information would stakeholders like to see with such a list?
- What do stakeholders view as successful or valuable in FDA’s continued participation as the scientific reviewers for new AAFCO feed ingredient definitions?
Based on FDA’s presentation requirements, we are asking pet owners for their responses to the following questions.
Our presentation will include your responses and we will publish our presentation for pet owners after we provide it to FDA.
If you would like to attend the webinar, listen to all of the presentations (we assume many/most will be from industry), you can register to attend on the FDA website here.
Wishing you and your pet(s) the best,
Susan Thixton
Pet Food Safety Advocate
Author Buyer Beware, Co-Author Dinner PAWsible
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