Pet Food Quality Assurance

Principal ingredients of pet foods are meat, poultry, seafood, their by-products, feed grains, and soybean meal. The purchase and use of these ingredients by the pet food industry not only provides nutritional foods for pets at reasonable costs, but provides an important source of income to American farmers and processors of meat, poultry and seafood products for human consumption.

At the federal level, pet food labeling and advertising claims are regulated by the USDA, FDA, and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). All pet food plants are subject to inspection and the FDA's low acid canned foods regulations apply to pet foods just as they do to canned foods processed for human use.

 

 

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