AN EYEOPENER: Legal Ingredients Allowed In Food Animal Feed
Animal feed ingredients that are legally used in U.S. animal feeds
ANIMAL BASED PRODUCTS ALLOWED IN ANIMAL FEED
Rendered animal protein from the slaughter of production animals and other animals
Meat meal, meat meal tankage, meat and bone meal, poultry meal, animal blood by-product meal, dried animal blood, blood meal, feather meal, egg-shell meal, hydrolyzed whole poultry, hydrolyzed hair, bone marrow, and animal digest from dead, dying, diseased, or disabled animals including deer and elk
Animal waste
Dried ruminant waste, dried swine waste, dried poultry litter, and undried processed animal waste products
Marine by-products
Fish meal, fish residue meal, crab meal, shrimp meal, fish oil, fish liver and glandular meal, and fish by-products
Dairy products
Dried cow milk, casein, whey products, and dried cheese
MIXED
Fats and oils
Animal fat, vegetable fat or oil, and hydrolyzed fats
Restaurant food waste
Edible food waste from restaurants, bakeries, and cafeterias
Contaminated/adulterated food
Food adulterated with rodent, roach, or bird excreta that has been heat treated to destroy pathogenic organisms
OTHER
Antibiotics
Tetracyclines, macrolides, fluoroquinolones, and streptogramins
By-products of drug manufacture
Spent mycelium and fermentation products
Arsenicals
Roxarsone and arsanilic acid
Other metal compounds
Copper compounds and metal amino acid complexes
Nonprotein nitrogen
Urea, ammonium chloride, and ammonium sulfate
Minerals
Bone charcoal, calcium carbonate, chalk rock, iron salts, magnesium salts, and oyster shell flour
Vitamins
Vitamins A, D, B12, E, niacin, and betaine
Direct-fed organisms
Aspergillis niger, Bacillus subtilis, Bifidobacterium animalis, Enterococcus faecium, and yeast
Flavors
Aloe vera gel concentrate, ginger, capsicum, and fennel
Enzymes
Phytase, cellulase, lactase, lipase, pepsin, and catalase
Additives generally regarded as safe (GRAS)
Acetic acid, sulfuric acid, aluminum salts, dextrans, glycerin, beeswax, sorbitol, and riboflavin
Preservatives
Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) and sodium bisulfite
Nutraceuticals
Herbal and botanical products
Plastics
Polyethylene roughage replacement
PLANT
Forage
Alfalfa meal and hay, Bermuda coastal grass hay, corn plant, and soybean hay
Grains
Barley, corn (organic and genetically modified), oats, rice, sorghum, and wheat
Plant protein products
Canola meal, cottonseed cakes and meals, peanut meal, safflower meal, and soybean (organic and genetically modified) feed and meal
Processed grain by-products
Distillers products, brewers dried grains, corn gluten, sorghum germ cake and meal, peanut skins, and wheat bran
Fruit and fruit by-products
Dried citrus pulp, apple pomace, and pectin pulp
Molasses
Beet, citrus, starch, and cane molasses
Miscellaneous
Almond hulls and ground shells, buckwheat hulls, legumes and their by-products, and other crop by-products
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