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For your quick reference, we announce recent science news, research reports, and other items related to animal nutrition.  Look here first for updated news about nutrition, feeding practices, technology advances, and regulatory issues as they affect animal health, welfare, public health, and food safety. 

Nutrition and Diet

 

Food and Feed  

 

Regulatory  

Nutrition and Diet

FCCNew Edition of Food Chemicals Codex Released  WASHINGTON, March 5, 2008  The U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) has announced the release of the latest edition of the Food Chemicals Codex (FCC), a compendium that sets standards for the identity, quality and purity of ingredients found in foods consumed by the public every day, including colorings, flavorings, nutrients, preservatives and processing aids.

The new edition is the sixth publication of the compendium since 1966, and the first under USP's direction, having previously been published by the Institute of Medicine. The compendium is used by manufacturers of food, food chemicals and food ingredients to ensure that their products meet identity, purity and quality standards. As a private, science-based, non-governmental organization that sets the standards for prescription and over-the-counter medications sold in the United States must meet by law via the United States Pharmacopeia-National Formulary (USP-NF) compendia, USP is well qualified to set similar standards for food ingredients. The new publication is available in print or on line.
 

For more information see:  The USP web site.

 

Food and Feed

Dent CornFeed Grains Database Available  WASHINGTON, February 20, 2008  The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service has updated the Feed Grains Database, which contains updates on four feed grains (corn, grain sorghum, barley, and oats), foreign coarse grains (feed grains plus rye, millet, and mixed grains), hay, and related items. 

Available data in the Feed Grains Database include:
- Supply: beginning stocks, production, and imports;
- Demand: utilization for food, industrial uses, and seed, feed and residual, exports, and ending stocks;
- Prices: farm and market prices;
- Quantities fed: concentrates, oilseed meals, and animal- and grain-protein feeds;
- Feed-price ratios for livestock, poultry, and milk.

For more information see: The Feed Grains Database.

 

 

Regulatory

Center for Veterinary Medicine's official logoFDA Commissioner Names Directors to Food Safety and Veterinary Centers  WASHINGTON, January 2008  Commissioner of Food and Drugs Andrew C. von Eschenbach, M.D., announced two major changes in the agency's senior leadership team. Stephen F. Sundlof, D.V.M., Ph.D., is moving from director of FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) to director of FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN). Bernadette Dunham, D.V.M., Ph.D., who is deputy director of CVM, will assume directorship of CVM.  "It is more important than ever that the American public feel confident in the safety of the food they eat and feed their loved ones," said von Eschenbach. "Drs. Sundlof and Dunham are world class scientists and leaders, with the dedication, vision and expertise needed to tackle challenges and enhance the science involved in assuring the safety and nutritional value of something so vital to healthy life; namely our food."

For more information see: The Center for Veterinary Medicine web site.

 

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