AFIA-KSU Distance Education Program Coming This Spring
Would you like to provide training opportunities to your employees so they better understand the processes involved in manufacturing feed? Would you like your employees to better understand how to improve feed quality and processing efficiency? Would you like an effective training tool to improve facility safety and maintenance? Posted 4/2/10

FDA Looks at Veterinary Feed Directive, AFIA Working Group Prepares Comments
The Food and Drug Administration published an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking, or ANPRM, in the Federal Register on March 29. An ANPRM solicits comments on a particular topic for which FDA is contemplating changes; it is the step that precedes a proposed rule. Posted 4/2/10

Webcast on Controlling Salmonella to be held on Tuesday, March 23
Two educational webcasts designed to help feed industry personnel better understand how to control and manage Salmonella are planned this spring. Posted 3/19/10

Establishing a HACCP Program is Focus of April Short Course
The American Feed Industry Association and Kansas State University are partnering to offer another installment of a well-received educational program first offered last fall. Posted 2/19/10

AFIA Centennial Celebration Will Wind Down in March, Time Capsule Needs Items
More than 300 members and staff of the American Feed Industry Association gathered on March 11, 2009, to celebrate the organization’s milestone achievement—100 continuous years of service to the U.S. feed industry. A special program featuring farm broadcasting veteran Orion Samuelson was organized to mark the occasion at the same time AFIA convened its Spring Forum and Purchasing and Ingredient Suppliers Conference near Destin, Fla. Posted 2/19/10

AFIA Actively Pursues Commodity Market Reform
Recognizing that excessive speculation was one of six factors that allowed the commodity market bubble to occur in July 2008, and that this was one factor that could be controlled, the American Feed Industry Association has been working for the past 19 months to attain reform that will ensure these markets remain viable risk-management and price-discovery tools for the feed industry and other end users. Posted 1/22/10

AFIA Submits Comments to OSHA on Combustible-Dust Standards
The American Feed Industry Association this week sent comments to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration regarding the agency’s Combustible Dust Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. Posted 1/22/10

Today is Last Day to Register Online for $35 for AFIA’s International Feed Expo
Today is the last day to receive a discount on registration for the 2010 International Feed Expo/International Poultry Expo. Plans are coming together for another successful Expo in Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 27-29, and if you have not yet made your plans to attend, there is still time to do so. Posted 1/8/10

Animal Agriculture Coalition Challenges FDA’s Stance on Growth Promotants in Feed
At a Jan. 5 meeting with Food and Drug Administration Deputy Commissioner Joshua Sharfstein, more than 20 representatives of the Animal Agriculture Coalition—of which the American Feed Industry Association’s Richard Sellers is vice chair, expressed serious concerns about FDA’s announced policy that approved growth-promotant animal drugs should be either changed to prevention claims or phased out. Posted 1/8/10