{"topic_id":"aafco_ch6_chapter_tent_40_036","category":"us-2026","context":"---\ntopic_id: aafco_ch6_chapter_tent_40_036\ncategory: AAFCO-CH6-INGREDIENTS\ntitle: Chapter T40 - 2 Ingredient Definitions\nlang: en\nsource: aafco_ch6_2024_parsed.json\ndate_parsed: 2026-07-18\ntokens_estimated: 983\nextra: {\"chapter\": \"T40\", \"ingredient_count\": 2}\n---\n\n# Chapter T40\n\n# AAFCO 2024 Chapter 6 Ingredient Definitions - Chapter T40\n\n**Total ingredients in this chapter: 2**\n\n\n## Chapter Overview\n\nAAFCO Official Publication Chapter 6 contains ingredient definitions for animal feed and pet food. Chapter T40 covers 2 specific ingredients.\n\n\n## Ingredient List\n\n\n### T40.100(A) Recovered Retail Food composed of edible human food products safe and suitable for livestock feed and poultry feed that\n\n are collected from retail food establishments, domestic holding facilities, and domestic packing facilities. Permitted recovered retail foods are products from overstocks, lacking consumer acceptance, or beyond their sell-by date that include items such as bruised, cut, or overly ripe product (fruit and vegetables), bakery goods, eggs, and dairy products. It shall be safe and appropriately labeled for its intended use in accordance with good feeding practices and shall be free of material harmf\n\n\n### T40.113 Dried Recovered Household Food\n\n is composed of only non-spoiled materials originally intended for or derived from food for human consumption and collected from households. Materials are dried daily in the home to 12% or less moisture to enable safe storage and transport. These materials must be safe and suitable for use in animal food. The materials shall be collected, evaluated, and further processed by the manufacturer to confirm that only acceptable materials have been added by households. To help ensure safety, a manufact\n\n\n","sources":[],"tokens_estimated":983,"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."}