Feed Safety

It is the responsibility of the Feed Safety program to ensure the quality of all commercial feed products manufactured, sold or distributed in Kansas. The feed program's major objectives are:

Safeguarding both human and animal health
Promoting safe and effective nutrition of livestock and pets
Verifying and ensuring truth in labeling of commercial feed products

For consumer protection all feed manufacturers, transporters, distributors/retailers and animal production facilities are subject to random inspections and sampling to assure compliance with state and federal feed safety and labeling regulations.

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Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Inspections

GMP's inspections are routinely conducted at feed manufacturing facilities to ensure compliance with federal requirements as adopted in Kansas Administrative Regulations (K.A.R.) 4-3-49 and 4-3-50. GMP’s strive to prevent issues from arising during the manufacturing of feed that could lead to health, environmental or economic situations. The GMP’s also contain procedures to facilitate trace-back or recall of products. Firms not meeting the GMP requirements are re-inspected for compliance.
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy inspections are conducted at all levels of commercial feed commerce including manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, retailers, renderers, food and pet food salvagers to ensure no prohibited ruminant animal products are used in feed or are fed to ruminants. Kansas Administrative Regulation (K.A.R.) 4-3-51 adopts the Federal Code of Regulations pertaining to prohibited feed stuffs. In 2010, KDA was awarded a $1.1 million Feed Safety Grant to conduct inspections for five years.

FSMA Compliance for Feed Mills

The Food Safety Modernization Act was signed into law a decade ago, and its resulting rules have a broad impact to ensure the safety of both human and animal food. Many large animal food entities have dedicated staff to help their facility understand and comply with these rules. Medium and small animal food facilities are less likely to have staff with the background or previous training in animal food hygiene and regulatory compliance, which may impact their ability to comply with these rules.

This informational series of videos has been developed to assist small and medium Kansas feed manufacturers comply with rules associated with the Food Safety Modernization Act.

The video series was produced by Dr. Cassie Jones, Animal Sciences and Industry Professor/Teaching Coordinator at Kansas State University.

Video 1: What is FSMA and the preventive controls for Animal Food Rule?

Video 2: Does FSMA impact me?

Video 3: What do I need to do?

Video 4: What are my hazards?

Video 5: How can I control hazards?

Additional Resources:

Example Food Safety Plan

Example Prerequisite Programs

Prerequisite Program for Metals
Prerequisite Program for Aflatoxin, Fumonisin, and Vomitoxin
Prerequisite Program for Animal Drug Contamination
Prerequisite Program for Copper Toxicity in Sheep Feed

Example Preventative Control Program

Fillable Food Safety Plan

Hazard Analysis Database

Kansas Department of Agriculture

Feed Safety

ACAP Feed

Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Inspections

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)

FSMA Compliance for Feed Mills