Definition

Commercial Feed:

"Commercial feed" means all materials or combination of materials that are distributed or intended for distribution for use as feed or for mixing in feed, unless such materials are specifically exempted. Unmixed whole seeds and physically altered entire unmixed seeds, when such whole seeds or physically altered seeds are not chemically changed or not adulterated within the meaning of RCW 15.53.902, are exempt. The department by rule may exempt from this definition, or from specific provisions of this chapter, commodities such as hay, straw, stover, silage, cobs, husks, hulls, and individual chemical compounds or substances when such commodities, compounds, or substances are not intermixed with other materials, and are not adulterated within the meaning of RCW 15.53.902.

Examples of Materials Classified as Commercial Feed:
Plant Protein Products: soybean meal, canola meal, cottonseed meal, pea by-products, yeast products.
Animal Protein Products: meat and bone, animal by-product meal, blood meal, fish meal, poultry meal, hydrolyzed feather meal, milk and whey products.
Processed Grain by-products: wheat millrun, distillers dried grains, corn gluten meal, brewers dried grains, malt sprouts, wheat middlings, bran products.
Molasses Products: beet & cane molasses, molasses distillers dried solubles.
Roughage Products: soybean hulls and millrun, cottonseed hulls, beet pulp.
Forage Products: dehydrated alfalfa meal, ground alfalfa hay, ground grass.
Screenings, Chaff and Dust: wheat, corn, barley, cottonseed, oats, sorghum, rice.
Non-protein Nitrogen Supplements: urea, diammonium phosphate, amino acids.
Fat and Oil Products: animal, vegetable, blends, restaurant grease/”yellow grease”.
Mineral Supplements: mineral blocks, premises, limestone, defluorinated phosphate.
Vitamin Supplements: individual, multiple vitamins, and vitamin precursor mixes.
Fermentation Products: liquid and dry materials obtained from fermentation of grains, molasses, whey and microorganisms such as Aspergillus, Lactobacillus, Penicillium, etc.
Special Purpose Ingredients: flavors, extracts, rumen by-pass, probiotics.
Feeds: any mix of whole or processed grains, concentrates, and complete feeds for all species to include customer formula and labeled feeds, pet food (cat and dog food), specialty pet food (hamsters, canaries, psittacine birds, mynahs, finches, tropical fish, goldfish, snakes, and turtles).

The above examples are representative of some of the most common products classified as commercial feed. For classification of any ingredients that are not listed, please contact WSDA’s feed registration staff at (360) 902-2080 or by email at feedreg@agr.wa.gov.