2025-2027 Missouri AFRPS Maintenance - Project Summary Since Missouri is home to a significant percentage of the nation’s livestock and pet food production, the regulation of animal food is of vital importance for the protection of livestock feed and pet food consumers and producers. As evidenced by past significant feed adulteration events, feed is an important link to the human food supply and is therefore an important element of the human food safety equation. The Feed and Seed Program (program) has regulatory responsibility of livestock feed and pet food sold, manufactured, and distributed in Missouri. The program operates under the authority of the Director of the Missouri Department of Agriculture and within the Division of Plant Industries. The program directs the Missouri Feed Control Laboratory. The laboratory analyzes approximately 3,000 surveillance animal food samples annually. The products represented by these samples are produced both in Missouri and across the nation. The program considers the implementation and maintenance of AFRPS as an important step in fulfilling its role as a crucial and significant partner with FDA in the protection of the nation’s food supply. The program’s intent is to utilize cooperative agreement funds to continue to meet the critical needs of the feed program to maintain full implementation of the standards and maintain the capacity and capability to inspect the full inventory of Missouri feed facilities for compliance. The funding will be used in the following ways: maintain inspection strength to provide sufficient risk-based inspections, furnish outreach to industry, sustain appropriate staff training levels, maintain compliance and enforcement infrastructure, and improve program productivity and efficiency in regulatory processes. The program is committed to enhancing its cooperation and collaboration with the FDA and other state feed programs by sharing data, best practices and processes, and actively promoting and advancing the improvement of human and animal food safety to bring continuous improvement to the partnership for food protection.
