LEFTOVERS FOR LIVESTOCK

I. Introduction ......................................................................................................1
II. Federal and State Regulations.............................................................................3
A. Federal Laws for Using Food Scraps in Animal Feed......................................3
a. Federal Swine Health Protection Act..........................................................3
b. Ruminant Feed Ban Rule...........................................................................4
c. The Food Safety Modernization Act Preventive Controls Rules..................5
i. Food covered by the Preventive Controls rule for animal food...............5
ii. Facilities covered by the Preventive Controls rule for animal food........5
1. Facilities not in compliance with the human food rule.......................6
2. Facilities already in compliance with the human food rule.................6
3. Primary and secondary production farms...........................................6
4. Qualified facilities...............................................................................7
5. Facilities not required to register with FDA.......................................7
d. FDA Regulations Regarding Adulteration...................................................7
B. State Regulations............................................................................................8
a. Interaction between state and federal law.................................................8
b. Overview of state laws...............................................................................8
III.
IV.
Recommendations for Using Food Scraps as Animal Feed...........................11
Appendix A..................................................................................................13
This guide was written by Emily Broad Leib, Director of the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy
Clinic (FLPC); Ona Balkus, Senior Clinical Fellow at the FLPC; Christina Rice, Clinical Fellow at the
FLPC; Michelle Maley, Rohan Taneja, and Robin Cheng as law students in the FLPC; Nicole Civita,
Director of the Food Recovery Project at University of Arkansas School of Law; & Tiffany Alvoid, as
a candidate for a LL.M. in Agricultural and Food Law at the University of Arkansas School of Law.
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