Substances Prohibited From Use in Animal Food or Feed; Animal Proteins Prohibited in Ruminant Feed

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The Food and Drug Administration (we) is soliciting information and views on some potential changes to its current regulation prohibiting the use of certain proteins in ruminant animal feed. We put this regulation in place to prevent the spread through animal feed of the agent of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) were it to enter the United States. In this regulation we determined that protein derived from mammalian tissues for use in ruminant feed is a food additive under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the act), and that use of certain mammalian proteins in ruminant feed causes the feed to be adulterated under the act. We are considering revising this regulation, and therefore we are asking the public for comment on certain possible modifications to the rule. This information may be used to help draft a proposed rule in the near future.