The FDA’s Animal Feed Safety System (AFSS) Team has developed an easy to use Web page for information about safe feed. The new page went “live” in July, so it’s available and ready for use. The AFSS Team encourages members of the feed manufacturing or animal feeding industry as well as the general public to view the page and to provide feedback, such as ideas to improve the page’s design as well as suggestions for additional material that could be posted there.
The page is available at http://www.FDA.gov/SafeFeed. It is designed so that it works on a computer screen or on a mobile device; the user does not need to be sitting at a computer to find FDA’s information on safe feed.
The page has six topic links at the top. They are:
- Seek Ingredient Approval
- Manufacture Animal Feed
- Learn about Good Animal Feeding Practices
- Report a Problem
- Ship Animal Feed
- Learn about FSMA (the Food Safety Modernization Act).
Those are followed by a seventh link labeled “Get Assistance.” Users can send comments about the page via an e-mail address listed under Get Assistance. That address is AskCVM@fda.hhs.gov.
The ad hoc AFSS Team that designed the page identified these topics as the most useful in directing users to the information they want, so users will not have to do a great deal of searching to find information pertinent to their questions. For instance, the user does not need to search the “Guidance for Industry” Web page to find guidances applying to manufacturing animal feed. The user can click on the “Manufacture Animal Feed” link, which will lead to the section of the page that contains links to all the pertinent guidance documents.
Along with the links to specific topics, the SafeFeed page also has navigational boxes on the side about “News,” “Pet Food Regulation,” “Feed Regulators,” (placed on the site for the convenience of State feed regulators) and “Videos”.
Source: FDA AFSS