{"topic_id":"AAFCO_PET_FOOD_COMMITTEE_ROLE","category":"aafco-historical","context":"---\ntopic_id: AAFCO_PET_FOOD_COMMITTEE_ROLE\ncategory: aafco-historical\ntitle: \"AAFCO Pet Food Committee — statutory role & mission, and Training & Outreach Subcommittee (aafco.org)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"AAFCO Pet Food Committee page, aafco.org/about/committees/pet-food (first-hand HTML, retrieved 2026-07-29 via curl -sL -A Mozilla/5.0)\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/aafco-historical/aafco_pet_food_committee_page.txt\nsource_type: official_webpage_text\ndate_parsed: 2026-07-29\ntokens_estimated: 200\nverification: C1_substring_match\nclaims: 2\nsource_document: \"AAFCO — Pet Food Committee (about/committees/pet-food webpage)\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO)\"\n  title: \"AAFCO Pet Food Committee — statutory role & mission, and Training & Outreach Subcommittee\"\n  url: \"https://www.aafco.org/about/committees/pet-food/\"\n  retrieved: \"2026-07-29\"\n  ref: \"aafco.org/about/committees/pet-food (first-hand webpage, whitespace-normalised C1 substring)\"\n  doc_type: \"official webpage (first-hand English text)\"\n  needs_review: false\n---\n\n# AAFCO Pet Food Committee — role, mission, and Training & Outreach Subcommittee\n\nSource: AAFCO Pet Food Committee page (aafco.org/about/committees/pet-food), retrieved 2026-07-29 via curl. This documents the committee that drives revisions to the AAFCO Official Publication as related to pet food and specialty pet food — the institutional body behind the PFLM and edition changes captured in the other aafco-historical topics. It is distinct from those meeting/decision topics in that it states the committee's standing mission rather than specific dated decisions.\n\n## Key facts (verified C1 substrings of source_file)\n\n- `To provide a forum for regulators, industry, and other stakeholders to monitor, review, and recommend appropriate revisions to the AAFCO Official Publication as related to pet food and specialty pet food in order to protect pet and human health and to promote a structure for orderly commerce within the industry.`  (EN: the Pet Food Committee's mission — monitor/review/recommend OP revisions for pet & specialty pet food to protect pet/human health and promote orderly commerce.)\n- `Training & Outreach Subcommittee To work on all relevant pet food related issues regarding training and outreach.`  (EN: the committee's Training & Outreach Subcommittee handles pet-food training and outreach issues.)\n","sources":["aafco-historical — AAFCO Pet Food Committee — statutory role & mission, and Training & Outreach Subcommittee (retrieved 2026-07-29)"],"source":{"authority":"aafco-historical","title":"AAFCO Pet Food Committee — statutory role & mission, and Training & Outreach Subcommittee","url":"https://www.aafco.org/about/committees/pet-food/","retrieved":"2026-07-29","ref":"","doc_type":"official PDF","source_document":"AAFCO — Pet Food Committee (about/committees/pet-food webpage)","verification_file":"pdf-raw/aafco-historical/aafco_pet_food_committee_page.txt"},"source_document":"AAFCO — Pet Food Committee (about/committees/pet-food webpage)","source_file":"pdf-raw/aafco-historical/aafco_pet_food_committee_page.txt","tokens_estimated":200,"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."}