PROHIBITED MATERIALS

These products are considered prohibited materials if they come from cattle, other ruminants or mammals (except for exempted species). Ruminant animals include but are not limited to: Cattle, Sheep, Goats, Buffalo, Elk, and Deer.

Meat / Stock/Broth
Meat By-Products / Animal Digest
Animal Liver / Cooked Bone Marrow
Dried Meat Solubles / Leather Hydrolysate
Fleshings Hydrolysate / Meat Protein Isolate
Meat Meal / Mechanically Separated Bone Marrow
Meat and Bone Meal / Unborn Calf Carcasses
Animal By-Product Meal / Bone Meal, cooked
Meat Meal Tankage / Bone Meal, steamed
Meat and Bone Meal Tankage / Food Processing Waste
Hydrolyzed Leather Meal / Restaurant Food Waste
Hydrolyzed Hair / Salvage Pet Food
Glandular Meal and Extracted Glandular Meal / Distressed Pet food

If you have any questions or need further information, please contact:

Nebraska Department of Agriculture

Animal Plant Health Protection

(402) 471-2351

NON PROHIBITED OR EXEMPTED MATERIALS

These products, regardless of what species they originated from, are EXEMPT OR CONSIDERED NON PROHIBITED:

Blood and Blood Products

Milk Products (Milk and Milk Proteins)

Inspected meat products, such as plate waste, which have been cooked and offered for human food and further heat processed for animal feed

Gelatin

The following non-ruminant protein products are also EXEMPT OR CONSIDERED NON PROHIBITED:

Pure Porcine (Pork) Protein / Marine (Fish)
Pure Equine (Horse) Protein / Vegetable
Poultry

The following are also EXEMPT OR CONSIDERED NON PROHIBITEDbecause they are not protein or tissue, regardless of what species they originated from:

Grease / Tallow that contains less than 0.15% insoluble impurities1
Fat2 / Oil
Amino Acids / Dicalcium phosphate

If you have any questions or need further information, please contact:

Nebraska Department of Agriculture

Animal Plant Health Protection

(402) 471-2351

1 Tallow is defined by 21 CFR 589.2001(b)(5) as the rendered fat of cattle. Tallow that contains more than 0.15% insoluble impurities is considered to be an animal protein prohibited in ruminant feed in 21 CFR 589.2000(a)(1). Such tallow should be labeled with the cautionary statement, “Do not Feed to Cattle or Other Ruminants.”

2 Excludes tallow that contains more than 0.15% insoluble impurities.

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