Innovative FEED Act – Zootechnical Animal Food Substances
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2025-03-18 — Innovative FEED Act of 2025: HR2203 (119th Congress) introduced 2025-03-18 would create a new FDA statutory category for ‘zootechnical animal food substances’—additives that act only in the animal gut to affect digestion byproducts, reduce foodborne pathogens, or alter the GI microbiome—regulating them as food additives rather than animal drugs, and requiring labels to carry a disclaimer that the substance is not intended to treat or prevent disease. (novelty: 3)