FDA's Proposed Protein Rule Seen Impacting Tallow Makers

Chemical Market Reporter, January, 1997 by CHAPMAN, PETER

THE NEW YEAR has brought bad news for the rendering industry as Food & Drug Administration has proposed a ban on the sale of certain protein products. Calorific products like tallow would be exempt from the ban, but that end of the business is still expected to be impacted indirectly. To guard against a US outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or "mad cow" disease, FDA has proposed a ban on giving animal feed that contains ruminant-derived protein to ruminant animals such as beef and dairy cattle, sheep, and others.

The ban would not affect non-ruminant-derived proteins or feed containing ruminant-derived proteins fed to non-ruminants such as chickens. The public has 45 days to comment. One renderer has already weighed in. "It's ludicrous,"...

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