Livestock Feeds

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) verifies livestock feeds manufactured and sold in Canada or imported are safe, effective and are labelled appropriately. Effective feeds contribute to the production and maintenance of healthy livestock.

• E-mail Notification Services

What information is available?

• Approved feed ingredients
  • List of registered processing aids
• Compendium of medicating ingredient brochures
• Consultations on proposed regulatory and policy changes
• Forms
  • Application for Permit to Operate a Rendering Plant - CFIA/ACIA 0065
  • Application Form for Feed Registration or Renewal - CFIA/ACIA 0009
  • Declaration of Resident Canadian Agent Form - CFIA/ACIA 1194
• Industry notices
• Novel feeds
• Regulatory guidance
  • RG-1: Feed registration procedures and labelling standards
  • RG-2: feeding of poultry manure to cattle prohibited
  • RG-3: Pet food not approved for use in lvestock feed
  • RG-4: Disposal of animals, their products or by-products through commercial inedible rendering
  • RG-5: The enhanced feed ban statement, lot numbers and record retention for animal food, labels and documentation
  • RG-6: Ethanol Distillers' Grains for Livestock Feed
  • RG-7: Prudent use of veterinary drugs in livestock feeds

Additional government and industry information

• Animal Nutrition Association of Canada
• Antimicrobial Resistance