{"topic_id":"AAFCO_2020_mbrc_midyear_decisions","category":"aafco-historical","context":"---\ntopic_id: AAFCO_2020_mbrc_midyear_decisions\ncategory: aafco-historical\ntitle: \"AAFCO Model Bills and Regulations Committee Midyear 2020 (Albuquerque, NM, January 21, 2020) — Reg 6(h) Carriers / PF3 / PF5 / PF7 Revisions / SUIP 27 Chews and Bones\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"Model_Bill_and_Regulations_Minutes_2020_Midyear.pdf (AAFCO wp-content, Tokyo xray 2026-07-20 download, SHA-256 verified)\"\ndate_parsed: 2026-07-21\ntokens_estimated: 800\nverification:\n  method: substring_match\n  claims: 8\n  passed: 8\n  date: 2026-07-21\n---\n\nAAFCO Model Bills and Regulations Committee (MBRC) Midyear Meeting — January 21, 2020, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Committee Chair **Doug Lueders** called the meeting to order at 1:00 p.m.\n\n## Five Regulatory Revision Recommendations (to AAFCO Board of Directors)\n\nThe MBRC recommends the following revisions be made to the Model Bills and Regulations:\n\n1. **Add Regulation 6(h) regarding Carriers** (Attachment A) — and move Statements of Uniformity Interpretation and Policy (SUIP) 17 — Carriers to the deleted SUIP list if Regulation 6(h) is approved by the membership.\n2. **Revise Model Bill Section 7 — Adulteration** (Attachment B).\n3. **Revise Regulation PF3 — Brand and Product Names** (Attachment D).\n4. **Revise Regulation PF5 — Ingredients** (Attachment E).\n5. **Revise Regulation PF7 — Nutritional Adequacy and Feeding Protocols** (Attachment F).\n\n## Other Items Discussed\n\n- **Regulation 4(g) and 4(h) Expression of Guarantees**: working group approved by the committee to revise Model Bill Regulation 4(g) and 4(h); to be presented to the membership during the 2020 AAFCO Midyear Business Meeting.\n- **SUIP 27 Chews and Bones** (Attachment C): a recommendation provided by the Pet Food Committee was considered by MBRC.\n\n## Context Within Multi-Year PFLM Timeline\n\nThis 2020 meeting is the **earliest formal attachment of the modern PF sections**: Attachment D (PF3 Brand and Product Names), Attachment E (PF5 Ingredients), Attachment F (PF7 Nutritional Adequacy and Feeding Protocols). These attachments were the seed documents that were accepted as proposals and moved toward the **2022-09-28 PFLM draft cycle** (Lizette Beckman as editor), which became the final PFLM adopted in the 2023 Annual Meeting and embedded in the 2024 AAFCO Official Publication.\n\nThe Carriers addition (Regulation 6(h)) was a separate but parallel housekeeping action — codifying into the Model Bill what had previously been in SUIP 17 (Carriers).\n\nSource: `pdf-raw/aafco/Model_Bill_and_Regulations_Minutes_2020_Midyear.pdf` (downloaded via Tokyo xray VPS 206.237.120.227 from `aafco.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/`; SHA-256 byte-for-byte verified).","sources":[],"tokens_estimated":800,"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."}