FDA Extends Comment Period on FSMA Animal Food Proposal

The Food and Drug Administration is extending until March 31 the comment period on its Food Safety Modernization Act proposed rule on animal food. The proposal would set current good manufacturing practices and hazard analysis and risk-based preventative controls requirements for animal feed and pet food (see 13102519). Comments were originally due Feb. 26, but FDA is giving commenters more time to consider new CGMP requirements, as well as the relationship between the animal food rule proposal and the Foreign Supplier Verification Program, it said.