did the fda mandate that all pet food had to be humanly edible?

[KarlGrenze]

@UDS

I’m not sure where “over here” is from bob++'s perspective, and he doesn’t give a link or a citation to whatever it is he is quoting from. But his quote doesn’t say that pet food/animal food has to be suitable for human consumption. The first paragraph says that any food fed to any animal has to be suitable for feeding to an animal that might be eaten by a human, which is not the same thing at all. And the second says that the way pet food has to be handled is the same as the way food which might enter the human food chain has to be handled, which again is not the same thing.

“Food which might form part of the human food chain” =/= “food which might be eaten by humans”

Some information about ingredient standards for pet foods.

Information about “human-grade”.

And here is one giving a summary of ingredients.

So, in essence, if the animal ingredients for a pet food all come from a USDA approved slaughterhouse, it could be considered human edible. Except, they may include food that has been rejected for human consumption (aesthetics or just organs not sold in the US like lungs).

Using animal ingredients from animals that were not slaughtered usually need that those products be further processed. These are not considered edible for humans.

Because of safety reasons, pet food is expected to be free from food-borne bacteria like Salmonella, otherwise there are recalls (just like with human food).