{"topic_id":"aafco_2025_t60_117_bsfl_official_adult_dog_cat","category":"insect-protein-2026","context":"---\ntopic_id: aafco_2025_t60_117_bsfl_official_adult_dog_cat\ncategory: insect-protein-2026\ntitle: \"AAFCO 2025 Midyear (January 21, 2025, Little Rock, Arkansas) — T60.117 BSFL Moved to Official and Replaced (Finfish + Poultry + Swine + Adult Dog Food + Adult Cat Food)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"aafco-idc-minutes-2025-midyear.pdf (AAFCO wp-content, downloaded 2026-07-21, 365 KB)\"\ndate_parsed: 2026-07-21\ntokens_estimated: 750\nverification:\n  method: substring_match\n  claims: 8\n  passed: 8\n  date: 2026-07-21\n---\n\n# AAFCO 2025 Midyear (January 21, 2025, Little Rock, Arkansas) — T60.117 BSFL Moved to Official (Including Adult Dog Food and Adult Cat Food)\n\nThe **AAFCO Ingredient Definitions Committee (IDC) Midyear Meeting** was held in **Little Rock, Arkansas, January 21, 2025, 2:15 pm CT**. The IDC Agenda Item 1 was a motion to **move to Official and replace the current Official definition of T60.117 Dried Black Soldier Fly Larvae**.\n\n## The Motion and Definitive T60.117 Text (2025 Midyear)\n\n**Motion:** Move to Official and replace current Official: **T60.117 Dried Black Soldier Fly Larvae** is the dried larvae of the Black Soldier Fly, **Hermetia illucens**, with or without mechanical extraction of part of the oil, that has been raised on a feedstock composed exclusively of feed grade materials. The ingredient must be labeled with guarantees for **minimum crude protein and minimum crude fat** on an as-fed basis. If oil is mechanically extracted, **maximum crude fat** must also be guaranteed on the ingredient label. The ingredient is dried by artificial means to **no more than 10% moisture**. **It is for use in finfish, poultry, and swine feed, and in adult dog food, and adult cat food**.\n\n## Significance\n\nThis 2025 motion **closes the regulatory loop** for BSFL Dried Larvae as a federally-official pet food ingredient in the US:\n\n- **2021** — T60.117(C) tentative for adult dog food\n- **2024 (August)** — T60.117(A) Official for finfish; T33.29(B) BSFL Oil Official for adult cat food\n- **2025 (January)** — T60.117 Official for **finfish + poultry + swine + adult dog food + adult cat food** (consolidated, replacing all tentative versions)\n\nThe inclusion of **adult cat food** is the new addition vs the 2021 tentative — until 2025, BSFL Dried Larvae for cats was not authorised in the US feed law (AAFCO's expert panel review process is per species + life stage and the cat food approval had to wait for completion of the cat-specific safety/efficacy dossier).\n\n## Pet Food Impact\n\nBoth **adult dog food** and **adult cat food** now have **official** (rather than tentative) status for Dried Black Soldier Fly Larvae use. This means:\n\n- Many US state feed control officials have already accepted the ingredient in adult dog food (since the 2021 tentative publication); the 2025 Official status removes any ambiguity.\n- Adult cat food is newly authorised at the official level — a meaningful product-development signal for the US cat food market.\n- BSFL Oil (T33.29(B)) was already official since August 2024 for adult cat food.\n\n## Source\n\n`pdf-raw/insect-protein-2026/aafco-idc-minutes-2025-midyear.pdf` (AAFCO wp-content `aafco.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IDC.pdf`, 365 KB, downloaded 2026-07-21).\n\nFor the predecessor tentative 2021 T60.117(C) and the 2024 T60.117(A) / T33.29(B) Official motions, see companion topics `aafco_2021_t60_117_bsfl_adult_dog_tentative` and `aafco_2024_t60_117a_bsfl_official_finfish`.","sources":[],"tokens_estimated":750,"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."}