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<blockquote data-quote="Farminlund" data-source="post: 68263" data-attributes="member: 1132"><p>You are correct in that the FDA initially announced it was proposing a ban on the use of chicken litter as cattle feed (Jan 04). At that time, they also had no plans of changing the feed practices for other animals (ie ruminants could still be fed to non-ruminants). To control cross contamination, they proposed separate feed processing equipment or special cleaning procedures when changing from non-ruminant to ruminant feeds. They also continued to allow litter as fertilizer on cattle pastures. As time progressed & investigations continued, they decided the risk for accidental or intentional cross contamination was too great to continue allowing ruminants to be utilized in ANY animal feed (thus the quote from the July Federal Register). This was also the route that Canada had announced it would follow. Given the recommended restriction on the use of processed ruminants in any feed, the proposed ban on using litter as cattle feed did not take effect as originally announced.</p><p></p><p>I sure hope this doesn't start up a new round of comments, but I did want to answer your question.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Farminlund, post: 68263, member: 1132"] You are correct in that the FDA initially announced it was proposing a ban on the use of chicken litter as cattle feed (Jan 04). At that time, they also had no plans of changing the feed practices for other animals (ie ruminants could still be fed to non-ruminants). To control cross contamination, they proposed separate feed processing equipment or special cleaning procedures when changing from non-ruminant to ruminant feeds. They also continued to allow litter as fertilizer on cattle pastures. As time progressed & investigations continued, they decided the risk for accidental or intentional cross contamination was too great to continue allowing ruminants to be utilized in ANY animal feed (thus the quote from the July Federal Register). This was also the route that Canada had announced it would follow. Given the recommended restriction on the use of processed ruminants in any feed, the proposed ban on using litter as cattle feed did not take effect as originally announced. I sure hope this doesn't start up a new round of comments, but I did want to answer your question. [/QUOTE]
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