{"topic_id":"aafco_ch6_chapter_73_025","category":"us-2026","context":"---\ntopic_id: aafco_ch6_chapter_73_025\ncategory: AAFCO-CH6-INGREDIENTS\ntitle: Chapter 73 - 36 Ingredient Definitions\nlang: en\nsource: aafco_ch6_2024_parsed.json\ndate_parsed: 2026-07-18\ntokens_estimated: 2333\nextra: {\"chapter\": \"73\", \"ingredient_count\": 36}\n---\n\n# Chapter 73\n\n# AAFCO 2024 Chapter 6 Ingredient Definitions - Chapter 73\n\n**Total ingredients in this chapter: 36**\n\n\n## Chapter Overview\n\nAAFCO Official Publication Chapter 6 contains ingredient definitions for animal feed and pet food. Chapter 73 covers 36 specific ingredients.\n\n\n## Ingredient List\n\n\n### 73.001 73.001\n\nTechnical Additives Table Official\n\n\n### 73.020 Ammonium Formate—The food additive ammonium formate may be safely used in the manufacture of complete swine feeds in accordance with the following prescribed conditions: (a) The additive\n\n is manufactured by the reaction of 99.5% ammonia gas and 99% formic acid in a continuous loop reactor to produce a solution made up of 37% ammonium salt of formic acid and 62% formic acid. (b) The additive is used or intended for use as a feed acidifying agent, to lower the pH, in complete swine feeds at levels not to exceed 1.2% of the complete feed. (c) To ensure safe use of the additive, formic acid and formate salts from all added sources cannot exceed 1.2% of complete feed when multiple so\n\n\n### 73.021 Benzoic Acid—The food additive benzoic acid may be safely used in the manufacture of complete swine feeds in accordance with the following prescribed conditions: (a) The additive\n\n is used or intended for use as a feed acidifying agent, to lower the pH, in complete swine feeds at levels not to exceed 0.5% of the complete feed. (b) The additive consists of not less than 99.5% benzoic acid (CAS 65-85-0) by weight with the sum of 2-methylbiphenyl, 3-methylbiphenyl, 4-methylbiphenyl, benzyl benzoate, and isomers of dimethylbiphenyl not to exceed 0.01% by weight. (c) To assure safe use of the additive, in addition to the other information required by the Federal Food, Drug, an\n\n\n### 73.025 Formic Acid\n\n is manufactured by heating carbon dioxide and NaOH under pressure and decomposing the resulting sodium formate with H2SO4; the resulting formic acid, CH2O2, has a molecular weight of 46.02. The food additive formic acid may be safely used in accordance with the following conditions: (a) The additive is used as a preservative in hay crop silage in an amount not to exceed 2.25% of the silage on a dry weight basis or 0.45% when direct cut, as follows: (1) The top foot of silage stored should not c\n\n\n### 73.026 73.026\n\nFeed Grade Sodium Formate—The food additive feed grade sodium formate may be safely used in the manufacture of complete swine and poultry feeds in accordance with the following prescribed conditions:\n\n\n### 73.030 Formaldehyde—The food additive formaldehyde may be safely used in the manufacture of animal feeds in accordance with the following conditions: (a) The additive\n\n is used, or intended for use, to improve the handling characteristics of animal fat in combination with certain oilseed meals by producing them from a dry, free-flowing product as follows: (1) For animal fat in combination with certain oilseed meals, as a component of dry, nonpelleted feeds for beef and non-lactating dairy cattle. (i) For aqueous blend of soybean and sunflower meals in a ratio of 3:1, respectively, is mixed with animal fat such that the oilseed meals and animal fat are in a rat\n\n\n### 73.040 Bentonite\n\n is a naturally occurring mineral consisting primarily of the trilayered aluminum silicate, montmorillonite. It may contain calcium or sodium as the predominant available or exchange ion. It is used or intended for use in non-medicated animal feed as an anti-caking agent and pelleting aid in an amount not to exc\n","sources":[],"tokens_estimated":2333,"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."}