This book analyzes everything from the composition to the regulation of waste products, it also provides a comprehensive look at the entire process of converting unused waste into a safe and efficient animal food. It also focuses on the challenges of utilizing both wet and/or processed food waste.

Discusses:

• Regulatory enviroment relating to food waste
• Perspective of end users
• Practical use as animal feed
• Food waste as swine feed
• Uses as a ruminant feed source
• The concerns of people in the industry

Contents:

1. Food Waste as Animal Feed: An Introduction
2. Food Residuals: Waste Product, By-product, or Coproduct
3. Regulation of Food-waste Feeding: The Federal Perspective
4. The History and Enforcement of the Swine Health Protection Act
5. Food Waste as Swine Feed
6. The Economics of Feeding Processed Food Waste to Swine
7. Dehydrated Restaurant Food Waste as Swine Feed
8. Case Studies in Utilizing Food-Processing By-Products as Cattle and Hog Feed
9. Sweetpotatoes and Associated By-Products as Feeds for Beef Cattle
10. The Use of Food Waste as Feedstuff for Ruminants
11. Concerns When Feeding Food Waste to Livestock
12. Rendering Food Waste
13. Concerns With the Use of Nontraditional Feed Wastes and By-Products

Appendix A: US and Canadian Feed Regulatory Agencies and US State Feed Control Officials
Appendix B: The 1998 Amended Swine Health Protection Act

Index

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