Chapter 5
Commercial Feeds: Laws and Regulations
Chapter Goals
- Describe the overall scope of the commercial feed industry
- Highlight feed manufacturing laws, rules, and regulations
- Explain the label format as to what has to be included on a label and how
this format is interpreted.
Assignments
- Read Chapter 5 of text
- Study specific objectives
- Complete study questions at the end of the chapter.
Specific Objectives
The student should be able to:
- Define primary feed
- State the criteria for determining if a feed mill is required to register
with the FDA.
- Outline the types of commercial feeds and their ingredients
- Define the various physical forms of feeds that are manufactured.
- Define liquid protein supplement.
- State the use of a liquid protein supplement.
- Outline feed-mixing regulations.
- Describe the use of feed labels.
- State the label requirements.
- Discuss the use of collective terms.
- List the categories of collective terms.
Primary feed
production by type of feed, 1998