{"topic_id":"AAFCO_2019_pfc_midyear_decisions","category":"aafco-historical","context":"---\ntopic_id: AAFCO_2019_pfc_midyear_decisions\ncategory: aafco-historical\ntitle: \"AAFCO Pet Food Committee Midyear 2019 (Savannah, GA, January 22, 2019) — PF3(e) Strike / PF4(g) Revision / Chair Transition Green→Beckman+Schmidt\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"Pet_Food_Report_2019_Midyear.pdf (AAFCO wp-content, Tokyo xray 2026-07-20 download, SHA-256 verified)\"\ndate_parsed: 2026-07-21\ntokens_estimated: 850\nverification:\n  method: substring_match\n  claims: 8\n  passed: 8\n  date: 2026-07-21\n---\n\nAAFCO Pet Food Committee (PFC) Midyear Meeting — January 22, 2019, Savannah, Georgia, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm EST. Official Report (Pet_Food_Report_2019_Midyear.pdf, 358 KB, 391 lines).\n\n## Key Motions Passed\n\n1. **PF3(e) Strike** (referred to Model Bill and Regulations Committee / MBRC): the workgroup report was accepted and the recommendation to remove PF3(e) (the \"95% claims\" vs \"95% product name rule\") from the AAFCO Model Bill was forwarded to MBRC for action. Moved by Austin Therrell (SC), seconded by Jason Schmidt (LA); motion passed.\n2. **PF4(g) Revision** (referred to MBRC): proposed revisions to PF4(g) (Feeding directions clarification; Bill Bookout / NASC for Dr. Bill Burkholder / FDA-CVM) were accepted and referred to MBRC. Moved by Austin Therrell (SC), seconded by Jason Schmidt (LA); motion passed.\n3. **Pet Food Label Workshop**: AAFCO to conduct a 1-day workshop at Pet Food Forum (May 2, 2019). Motion to form a workgroup to organize and develop content moved by Jason Schmidt (LA), seconded by Austin Therrell (SC); passed. Katie Simpson to chair; Angele Thompson (PFI), Bill Bookout (NASC), Cathy Alinovi (NGPFMA), Austin Therrell (SC), Kristin Green (KY), Jason Schmidt (LA) on workgroup.\n\n## Chair Transition\n\n**Kristen Green (KY) and Stan Cook (MO)** stepped down as PFC Chair and Vice-Chair following the meeting (remained on the committee). **Lizette Beckman (WA) and Jason Schmidt (LA)** became co-chairs of the PFC moving forward.\n\n## Members Present\n\nKristen Green (Chair, KY), Stan Cook (Vice-Chair, MO), Lizette Beckman (WA), James Embry (TX), George Ferguson (NC), Tiffany Leschishin (MN – call in), Jo Lynn Otero (NM), Jason Schmidt (LA), Katie Simpson (chair of subsequent workgroup).\n\n## Context Within Multi-Year PFLM Timeline\n\nThis 2019 meeting was the first formal PFC action that became the seed of the multi-year Pet Food Label Modernization (PFLM) project. The PF3(e) \"95% claims\" rule was a long-standing provision dating back to the 1970s/80s; its strike + the PF4(g) feeding-directions clarification were the foundation that MBRC used from 2020 forward to build the modern PF sections.\n\nSource: `pdf-raw/aafco/Pet_Food_Report_2019_Midyear.pdf` (downloaded via Tokyo xray VPS 206.237.120.227 from `aafco.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/`; the public PDF was unreachable from CN due to GFW blocking aafco.org and from Seoul due to LAN routing issues; Tokyo VPS accessed it directly). SHA-256 byte-for-byte verified.","sources":[],"tokens_estimated":850,"generated_at":null,"tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}