Processed Animal Waste Products as Animal Feed Ingredients

PURPOSE: This rule establishes the requirements that must be met before recycled animal waste products can be used as commercial feed in the state. (1) The required sampling, testing, records, warning statements, terms, and definitions are published in the current Association of American Feed Control Officials Official Publication concerning recycled animal waste products. (2) The following definitions apply to recycled animal waste products manufactured, labeled, and distributed only in the state of Missouri: (A) Dried poultry waste, high ash—means a processed animal waste product composed primarily of feces from commercial poultry, which has been thermally dehydrated to a moisture content not in excess of fifteen percent (15%). It shall contain not less than eighteen percent (18%) crude protein, and not more than seventeen percent (17%) crude fiber, forty-five percent (45%) ash, and one percent (1%) feathers on a dry matter basis. Percentage guarantees for maximum acid detergent fiber and maximum ash must be given on the feed label, plus feeding directions. The feeding directions shall limit the inclusion of the animal waste to contributing not more than ten percent (10%) ash in the animal’s final diet by weight on a dry matter basis. If total digestible nutrients (TDN) or calorie contents are claimed, the factors for determining them must be those established by rule and such claims must be limited to the ingredient only; and (B) Dried poultry litter, high ash—means a processed animal waste product composed of a processed combination of feces from commercial poultry together with litter that was present in the floor production of poultry, which has been dehydrated to a moisture content not in excess of fifteen percent (15%). It shall contain not less than eighteen percent (18%) crude protein, and not more than twenty-eight percent (28%) crude fiber, twenty-nine percent (29%) ash, and four percent (4%) feathers on a dry matter basis. Percentage guarantees for maximum acid detergent fiber and maximum ash shall be given on the label, plus feeding directions. The feeding directions shall limit the inclusion of the animal waste to contributing not more than ten percent (10%) ash in the animal’s final diet by weight on a dry matter basis. If TDN or calorie contents are claimed, the factors for determining them must be those established by rule and such claims must be limited to the ingredient only. AUTHORITY: section 266.195, RSMo 2000.* Original rule filed Nov. 17, 1997, effective June 30, 1998. Amended: Filed March 8, 2012, effective Sept. 30, 2012. *Original authority 1972, amended 1993, 1995, 1997.