Summary
The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) Animal Feed Program (AFP) will maintain and enhance animal feed safety through the Animal Food Regulatory Program Standards (AFRPS) Maintenance Track, aiming to improve regulatory activities and data quality.
What they want
The program involves maintaining best practices, enhancing animal food safety, and better directing regulatory activities aimed at reducing foodborne illness attributed to animal feed safety hazards. It also includes continuously improving the eleven AFRPS standards, ensuring greater efficiency, and working with the state laboratory to guarantee valid and defensible laboratory testing data to protect human and animal health. The goal is to assist Michigan and the FDA in increasing food safety and moving towards a national, fully integrated food safety system.
Deliverables
- Maintenance of best practices for animal food safety
- Enhanced animal food safety
- Better directed regulatory activities aimed at reducing foodborne illness
- Improved efficiency of the Animal Feed Program
- Increased acceptance by FDA of MDARD AFP field inspections and laboratory data
- Improved data quality and response time
- Valid and defensible laboratory testing data
