Canadian Food Inspection Agency issues draft regulations on use of distillers grains from ethanol as livestock feed

In Canada, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency issued a draft regulations on the use of distillers’ grains from ethanol production as livestock feed. The CFIA will publish a final version in the fall, after a comments period. The Agency said that several chemicals used in ethanol production needed to be assessed for safety, including monensin sodium and tylosin tartrate.

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