Chapter 69
AAFCO 2024 Chapter 6 Ingredient Definitions - Chapter 69
Total ingredients in this chapter: 7
Chapter Overview
AAFCO Official Publication Chapter 6 contains ingredient definitions for animal feed and pet food. Chapter 69 covers 7 specific ingredients.
Ingredient List
69.1 Oat Groats
are cleaned oats with the hulls removed. (Published 1931, Amended 1963)
69.2 Oat Hulls
consists primarily of the outer covering of oats, obtained in the milling of table cereals or in the groating of oats from clean oats. (Adopted prior to 1928, Amended 1963)
69.3 Feeding Oat Meal
is obtained in the manufacture of rolled oat groats or rolled oats and consists of broken oat groats, oat groat chips, and floury portions of the oat groats,
69.4 Clipped Oat By-Product
is obtained in the manufacture of clipped oats. It may contain the light chaffy material broken from the end of the hulls, empty hulls, light immature oats, and dust. It must not contain an excessive amount of oat hulls. (Adopted prior to 1928)
69.6 Mixed Feed Oats
consists of a mixture of grain containing at least 30% of cultivated oats provided that the mixture consists of either (a) not less than 65% of cultivated and wild oats combined or (b) not less than 65% of wild oats. It must contain more than 25% of other grains, not more than 6% heat damaged kernels of oats, wild oats, and other grains, and not more than 10% foreign material which may include 4% fine seeds. (Published 1958, Amended 1964)
69.7 Oat Mill By-Product
is the by-product obtained in the manufacture of oat groats, consisting of oat hulls, and particles of the groat, and containing not more than 25% crude fiber. (Proposed 1963, Published 1964)
69.8 Oat Fiber
is obtained from oat hulls that have been processed through a continuous wet and dry process to modify soluble and insoluble fractions of the fiber, and to reduce the content of lignin. The ingredient must be guaranteed for neutral detergent fiber, acid detergent fiber, and acid insoluble lignin. Oat fiber is to be used as a source of insoluble fiber in animal feed and pet food. (Proposed 2019, Published 2020 rev. 1)