AAFCO Ch6 full ingredient definitions

AAFCO Chapter Six of the Official Publication (Official Feed Terms, Common or Usual Ingredient Names and Ingredient Definitions) contains roughly 650-700 feed ingredient definitions organized by category — the 2024 Chapter Six dataset indexes 650 ingredient entries, and the 2022-edition source text (pdf-raw/aafco_ch6.pdf; parsed to 11,112 lines / ~726 KB) numbers about 710 entries including table rows. Editor: Richard Ten Eyck (OR); submission guide Section Editor: Tammy Plank (FASS). Categories covered: (1) animal products — rendered meals (9.40 Meat Meal, 9.41 Meat and Bone Meal with min 4.0% P, 9.42 Animal By-Product Meal, 9.10 Poultry By-Product Meal, 9.15 Hydrolyzed Poultry Feathers, 51.14 Fish Meal) and fats (33.1 Animal Fat — ≥90% total fatty acids, ≤2.5% unsaponifiables, ≤1% insoluble impurities — including named-origin fats such as beef tallow and poultry fat); (2) grain products (48.14 Corn Gluten Meal, 75.4 Brewers Rice, 48.2 Corn Bran, wheat middlings, 69.1 Oat Groats); (3) plant proteins (soybean meal, potato protein, dried kelp 60.19); (4) mineral supplements (57.71 Dicalcium Phosphate, 57.10 Calcium Carbonate, 57.31 Salt ≥95% NaCl, 57.83 Ferrous Sulfate, 57.117 Zinc Oxide); (5) vitamin additives (90.12 Vitamin E Supplement ≥10,000 IU/lb, vitamin A and D3 supplements, choline chloride); (6) specialty ingredients (87.29 Yucca schidigera extract, 51.8 Fish Oil, 63.36 dried beet pulp, flaxseed products, lecithin). Definitions specify processing criteria, label guarantees and excluded materials (added blood, hair, hoof, horn, hide trimmings, manure, stomach and rumen contents); most do not fix numeric crude-protein minima — figures like "chicken meal 60% CP" are market specifications, and Chapter Six contains no "chicken meal" or "lamb meal" definitions as such. AAFCO maintains a submission process for new or modified definitions (definitions@aafco.org); definitions must be non-proprietary so as not to favor one producer. Copyright: AAFCO maintains exclusive rights; reproduction requires written permission.