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FEATURE: IPPE ATTRACTS OVER 31,000 DELEGATES

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of buildings that they can turn chickens
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EDUCATION PROGRAM
The
American
Feed
Industry
Association's (AFIA) Feed Production
Education Program on Feb. 1 included
several presentations providing feed
millers with the latest information about
FSMA, the most sweeping reform of U.S.
food safety laws in more than 70 years.
Feed companies with more than 500
full-time employees must already be
in compliance with the Current Good
Manufacturing Practice (CGMP) part of
the Act, and will have until September
2017 to comply with the Hazard
Analysis and Risk-Based Prevention
Controls portion of the law, according to the AFIA's Gary Huddleston.
Companies with 500 or fewer full-time
employees will have to be in compliance of the CGMP and Hazard Analysis
portions of the law by September 2017
and September 2018, respectively.
According to the AFIA, 80% to 90%
of the 19,000 animal feed facilities in the
United States fall under the small business (less than 500 employees) category.
"Inspections will be starting in early 2017, so some of the larger companies may see the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) coming to their
facilities to do inspections very soon,"
Huddleston said.
Robert Prevendar, NSF International's
global managing director of supply
chain, food safety and agriculture, told
feed millers during the education program that although new U.S. President
Donald Trump has vowed to overturn many policies introduced during
the Obama administration, he expects
FSMA to remain law.
"It's here and it's not going away," he
said. "Even with a new president, chanc76

Robert Prevendar, NSF International, talks about FSMA compliance during the AFIA Feed Production
Education Program at the IPPE.

es are it's not going to be repealed."
The FDA estimates the annual cost of
FSMA implementation for the feed industry to run between $135 million and $170
million over the next 10 years. However,
the AFIA estimates the cost will be considerably higher, although it hasn't offered
an exact dollar amount.
Prevendar said more global trade that
has led to increased feed imports to the
United States and the increasing complexity of the supply chain are two of
the major factors that led to the creation
of the food and feed safety measure.
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being food," he said. "They are not differentiating between the two."
NEWMAN DISCUSSES TRUMP
How new U.S. President Donald
Trump, whose policies are radically
different than his predecessor, Barack
Obama, might impact the feed industry
was addressed during a presentation on
Feb. 1 by Joel Newman, president and
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Newman said the industry would likely
have opportunities in regulatory reform
but also may face challenges in trade,
"There are a lot of ways that people

are describing this administration, but
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cause us to deal with a lot of change in
the process."
A big concern for the feed industry
was Trump's withdrawal from the Trans
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The TPP is a trade agreement negotiated over more than seven years with
governments of 11 nations accounting
for about 40% of the global economy.
TPP was wrapped up in February 2016
but was never sent to the U.S. Congress
for approval.
The TPP was considered a good
agreement for agriculture and would
have created more jobs and accelerated
the amount of product moving out of the
United States, Newman said.
"We're not at all pleased that this very
quick decision was made to pull out of
the agreement," he said.
The agreement had to be signed
within three years, so there is a yearand-a-half to two-year window to see
if portions of it can move forward, he
said. The problem is China is actively
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