This issue includes:
AFIA Board Leadership Discusses Industry Policy Priorities on Capitol Hill, With Agencies
FACA Lays Out Farm Bill Priorities
California SB 485
California SB 780
Illinois HB 1290
Illinois HB 2524
Illinois HB 3567
Maryland SB 937
AFIA Backs FDA's Pick to Lead CVM
EPA, FDA Seek Input on Oversight Approach of Certain Products
Codex is Back In-person and Focused on Feed
EFSA Provides Opinions on Restrictions of Feed and Welfare Recommendations for Poultry
This issue includes:
Putting a Price on the "True" Cost of Food or Pushing an Agenda?
Legislation Being Drafted on Export Container Issue
Industry Groups Urge Addressing Rail Competition
Trump-era Tariffs on China Still in Place, Nearing $100 Billion
Codex Supports IFIF's Work
New Protein PACT Launches, Needs Your Input!
FAO Releases Animal Nutrition Strategies to Reduce Antimicrobials in Animal Production
Join the Sustainability Member Interest Group
Commercial Dry Facilities ? Apply for FFY!
Want to Learn More at the PISC Suppliers Showcase?
Are You a Buyer of Ingredients? Have You Ever Attended PISC?
This Issue Includes:
FDA Site Inspections: During COVID and Beyond;
USMCA Is Viewed as Partial Template;
New York State Update;
Vermont State Update;
USDA Seeks Supply Chain Information;
USDA Needs Your Sustainability Examples;
President Targets Rural America in Vaccine Goal;
Feed Industry Sees Big Win At Codex;
IFIF Tackles AMR;
The American Feed Industry Association has been working with the Codex Alimentarius (Codex) for over 20 years to ensure its guidelines are science-based, it supports AFIA members' interests and most of all, that it protects public health. At Codex's recent July annual meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, AFIA successfully worked with U.S. government representatives and the International Feed Industry Federation to counter efforts by some countries to modify Codex's policies, which would have stripped the Codex decision-making process of its science-based structure.
The European Union is "unjustifiably" restricting the use of antimicrobials in food animal production exported into the bloc and is taking regulatory measures to bring its new "reciprocity" law into effect. It is essential that such policies, which are "part of a disturbing trend," be defended against in all forums, including in international trade negotiations and within standard-setting international bodies.
The ad hoc Codex Intergovernmental Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance (TFAMR) held its sixth session Dec. 10-14 in Busan, Republic of Korea. Leah Wilkinson, AFIA's vice president of public policy and education, participated as a member of the U.S. government delegation as the U.S. animal food industry representative.
Earlier this month, the head of the American Feed Industry Association spoke before the Codex Alimentarius Commission to defend the processes that enable the commission to move forward with science-based decisions, in light of recent countries' actions to stop progress on veterinary drug products in the approval process.
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