Washington State (RCW 15.53.9014) — Registration of pet food and specialty pet food
Source: RCW 15.53.9014, Washington State Legislature (app.leg.wa.gov), retrieved 2026-07-30. This is the statutory layer of Washington's pet food law; the implementing administrative rules (WAC 16-252, already in this repo under us_state/US_WA_petfood_ingredient_definitions_WAC16-252*) are adopted under this chapter.
This P2 topic covers the registration prerequisite for selling pet food / specialty pet food in Washington.
Registration framework
Claims (verified C1 substrings of source_file)
(1) A person may not distribute in this state a pet food or specialty pet food that has not been registered by the department.(EN: No distribution of pet food or specialty pet food in WA without department registration — RCW 15.53.9014(1).)All applications for registration must be submitted on forms provided by the department and must include: (a) The name and mailing address of the applicant; (b) The physical address of the applicant; (c) The name, contact information, and signature of the applicant(EN: Mandatory application contents — applicant name/mailing address, physical address, name/contact/signature — RCW 15.53.9014(2).)An application for registration must be accompanied by a label and other applicable printed matter describing the product and the following fees: (a) Twenty-two dollars per product for those products distributed only in packages of ten pounds or more; (b) Ninety dollars per product for those products distributed in packages of less than ten pounds(EN: Registration fees — $22/product for packages ≥10 lb, $90/product for packages <10 lb — RCW 15.53.9014(3).)Registrations are issued by the department for a two-year period beginning on July 1st of a given year and ending twenty-four months later on July 1st(EN: Registration term — two years, July 1 to July 1 — RCW 15.53.9014(4).)A distributor is not required to register a pet food or specialty pet food that is already registered under this chapter, as long as it is distributed with the original label.(EN: Distributor exemption if product already registered and sold under original label — RCW 15.53.9014(5).)a late fee of twenty dollars per product is added to the original fee(EN: Late renewal penalty — $20/product added if renewal not received by July 1 due date — RCW 15.53.9014(8).)