The American Feed Industry Association and National Grain and Feed Association are partnering to finance a project that the groups say will help the industry comply with the Food Safety Modernization Act. The two groups are funding the University of Minnesota’s work to develop guidelines aimed at helping animal feed, feed ingredient and pet food facilities to cost-effectively comply with a core requirement of the Food and Drug Administration’s final rules in the Act. FSMA requires covered animal food facilities to establish and implement an animal food safety system that includes an analysis identifying “known or reasonably foreseeable” hazards to determine if any hazards exist that require risk-based preventive controls. Under the project, the University will develop a generic hazard analysis and provide the analysis to the associations’ foundations, which in turn will share it with AFIA and NGFA-member facilities to use.