The Institute for Feed Education and Research (IFEEDER) released its first-ever annual report to donors today, reinforcing its continued commitment to executing research and education projects and initiatives that support the animal food industry’s legislative and regulatory priorities, protect its license to operate, and preserve consumer choice
“The past year for IFEEDER has been about one thing—focus,” said Rob Sheffer, the 2016-17 chairman of the IFEEDER Board of Trustees.
“In 2016-17, we spent plenty of time refocusing what types of projects to fund in the future as well as how to better communicate with, or ‘pay particular attention to,’ you, our donors. … Even the logo has a ‘focus’ on research and education, while paying tribute to the importance of the historical green and black to signify the message of sustainability and growth.”
The annual report provides an overview of the institute’s financial revenue and expenses as well as a cumulative list of corporate and individual donors. It also highlighted some of IFEEDER’s recent accomplishments, including:
• Developed a one-of-a-kind, generic hazard-analysis resource for facilities to use to create an animal food safety plan as required under the Food Safety Modernisation Act (FSMA). This tool will help facilities save thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of employees’ time and significantly reduce the number of new protocols that animal food companies must make to comply with the FSMA requirements.
• Carried out an independent, in-depth survey on the Food and Drug Administration’s process for approving new feed ingredients. The staggering results showed that on average, feed producers are investing $600,000 per product on product approval costs, and the industry is losing an average $1.75 million annually. The American Feed Industry Association staff will share this data with the FDA in an effort to significantly improve the ingredient review approval process.
• Carried out a three-year research project with the National Pork Board and other groups to identify knowledge gaps and opportunities for the feed industry to better prepare for a future outbreak of the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv).
• Developed a new tool that will provide the standard for all livestock and poultry organisations, universities and other organisations to use to assess the emissions generated by species over their total lifecycles. The methodology used to develop this tool concluded, based on scientific evidence, that the U.S. livestock and poultry sectors contribute less than 4.2 percent of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
• Overhauled the IFEEDER website by incorporating a new logo and optimising the site for search engines and mobile devices.
IFEEDER also provided a look-ahead to upcoming research and education projects and initiatives it will be carrying out during the 2017-18 fiscal cycle, which ends April 30, 2018.
Visit the IFEEDER website, HERE.
“The past year for IFEEDER has been about one thing—focus,” said Rob Sheffer, the 2016-17 chairman of the IFEEDER Board of Trustees.
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The annual report provides an overview of the institute’s financial revenue and expenses as well as a cumulative list of corporate and individual donors. It also highlighted some of IFEEDER’s recent accomplishments, including:
• Developed a one-of-a-kind, generic hazard-analysis resource for facilities to use to create an animal food safety plan as required under the Food Safety Modernisation Act (FSMA). This tool will help facilities save thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of employees’ time and significantly reduce the number of new protocols that animal food companies must make to comply with the FSMA requirements.
• Carried out an independent, in-depth survey on the Food and Drug Administration’s process for approving new feed ingredients. The staggering results showed that on average, feed producers are investing $600,000 per product on product approval costs, and the industry is losing an average $1.75 million annually. The American Feed Industry Association staff will share this data with the FDA in an effort to significantly improve the ingredient review approval process.
• Carried out a three-year research project with the National Pork Board and other groups to identify knowledge gaps and opportunities for the feed industry to better prepare for a future outbreak of the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv).
• Developed a new tool that will provide the standard for all livestock and poultry organisations, universities and other organisations to use to assess the emissions generated by species over their total lifecycles. The methodology used to develop this tool concluded, based on scientific evidence, that the U.S. livestock and poultry sectors contribute less than 4.2 percent of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
• Overhauled the IFEEDER website by incorporating a new logo and optimising the site for search engines and mobile devices.
IFEEDER also provided a look-ahead to upcoming research and education projects and initiatives it will be carrying out during the 2017-18 fiscal cycle, which ends April 30, 2018.
Visit the IFEEDER website, HERE.
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