Non-Conforming Product - Scrap sent to Animal Feed?

Greetings everyone, wasn't sure which topic to place this under - the company I work for assembles gingerbread houses and the cookies that end up being broken (nothing else wrong with them, just can't use them broken) are planned to be discarded as animal feed. Does anyone have experience with this in regards to what the requirements are to do this ? We are in California. Thank you in advance,

Try the CDFA website for info.

https://www.cdfa.ca....ialFeedReg.html

I would just reach out directly to farmers, hogs in particular. Cows milk tends to take on flavours when introduced to new feed, particularly one like gingerbread.

Hogs, on the other hand will eat anything, and the farmers would probably be thrilled to add it to the feed mix

Thanks all for your help ! :) 

FDA has a specific guidance for human food byproducts being assigned for use as animal food/feed.  See attached.

Yep, and these rejects fit the bill to perfection!

Some examples of human food by-products used for animal food include: • Wheat middlings generated while processing wheat for flour. • Grain products (hulls, bran, germ, gluten meal, grits, and meals) from other grain processing operations. • Peels, rinds, pomace, pulp, culls, or other similar material generated from processing fruits or vegetables for human consumption. • Human food such as potato chips, cookies, bread, pastry products, and pasta that is not adulterated and is safe for use as animal food, but is not acceptable as human food for quality reasons such as the wrong size, shape, color, or texture. B. Regulatory status of human food by-products used as animal food It should be noted that food, including human food by-products, used for animal food must be safe for the intended use. Human food by-products used for animal food must be generally recognized as safe (GRAS) under the conditions of intended use as animal food, or must be the subject of a food additive approval for animal food, to prevent the food from being considered adulterated (sections 201(s) and 409 of the FD&C Act [21 U.S.C. 321(s) and 21 U.S.C. 348]). A substance with a use that is GRAS or approved as a food additive for use in human food may not always be suitable for use in animal food. For example, propylene glycol is considered GRAS as an anti-caking agent for human food when used as specified in the regulation (21 CFR 184.1666), but is prohibited in or on cat food (21 CFR 589.1001).