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December 24, 2008: AAFCO Supports Funding of the Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank (FARAD)
AAFCO President, Andy Gray, issues a letter to Representative David Obey, Chair of the House Appropriations Committee in support of the funding of FARAD. The House Appropriations Committee is currently finalizing their version of the 2009 Agriculture Appropriations Bill. AAFCO asks that the committee recede to the higher funding amount ($806,000) in the Senate version of the 2009 Agriculture Appropriations Bill. The AAFCO Board of Directors acknowledges that FARAD is a valuable tool in assessing risk to food production animals due to exposure to unapproved livestock drug use and accidental or intentional exposure to pesticides and other chemicals and is worthy of sufficient funding. |
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-Correspondence from AAFCO's President Andy Gray to the AAFCO Members - discussing the changes and challenges for AAFCO in the upcoming year. |
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List of attendees for this year's AACO Meeting (held in Nashville, Tennessee). This is a PDF file. |
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- "Establishing an AAFCO HACCP Taskforce" Public Notice (PDF Dated 02/19/08) |
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- Correspondence from AAFCO's President Ricky Schroeder to Tess Butler of GIPSA/USDA - regarding the historical role of GIPSA and AAFCO's stand on GIPSA's role in defining standards for co-products produced as a result of ethanol production (PDF Dated 09/15/07) |
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- Correspondence from AAFCO's President Ricky Schroeder to the AAFCO Members - Regarding several items: Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with FDA; the Role of USDA in Differentiating Grain Inputs for Ethanol Production and Standardization Testing of the Co-Products of Ethanol Production; a new task force has been established to develop a Voluntary Hazard Analysis of Critical Control Points (HACCP) Standard for Feed (PDF Dated 01/18/08) |
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- AAFCO Press Release - AAFCO & FDA sign an Agreement on Feed Ingredient Listing |
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- Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between FDA & AAFCO |
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- Letter to the AAFCO Members & State Feed Program Administrators - regarding Inspector Traning & Certification (PDF) |
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- Letter to Dr. Stephen Sundlof, Director of CVM - regarding the new Animal Drug Application (NADA) process (PDF) |
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- Draft Guidance #122 - for industry on the Manufacture & Labeling of Raw Meat foods for companion & captive noncompanion carnivores & omnivores |
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- Committee Guidelines |
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- "White Paper" - Background on AAFCO Process Control |
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- Organic Regulations for Pet Foods (pdf) |
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- Pentobartibal in Dog Food - FDA Report on FDA website |
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- Biosecurity Guides - Links to other websites |
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