New FDA Food Safety Regulation may Drive up the Cost of Beer

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Joe Six Pack might find himself paying more for suds thanks to new safety regulations developed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

As part of the Food Modernization and Safety Act of 2011, the FDA wants to classify companies that distribute spent grain to farms as animal feed manufacturers. This could hurt the beer industry because breweries regularly sell or give their spent grain, which is left over from the beer-making process, to dairy farms, which feed it to cows.

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