{"topic_id":"AAFCO_Ch6_beef_byproduct","category":"aafco","context":"AAFCO Ch6 does not define a species-specific \"Beef By-Product Meal\"; the applicable definition is 9.42 Animal By-Product Meal: the rendered product from animal tissues, exclusive of any added hair, hoof, horn, hide trimmings, manure, stomach and rumen contents, except in such amounts as may occur unavoidably in good processing practices. It shall not contain added extraneous materials not provided for in the definition. The definition is intended to cover those individual rendered animal tissue products that cannot meet the criteria set forth elsewhere in its section, and it is not intended to be used to label a mixture of animal tissue products. (Proposed 1985, Amended 1992, Adopted 1993.) Unlike definition 9.40 (Meat Meal), the 9.42 definition does not itself fix crude protein, fat, ash, calcium or phosphorus numeric specifications — compositional figures quoted in the trade (e.g., \"50% crude protein\") are market specifications rather than AAFCO definition criteria. If a rendered beef by-product product bears a name descriptive of its kind or origin, it must correspond thereto under the general naming rules.\n","sources":["generated from .md only"],"tokens_estimated":119,"generated_at":"2026-07-16","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."}