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The purpose of this paper is to discuss the responsibilities of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and of state governments with respect to the use of animal waste as an animal feed ingredient. Included will be a discussion of FDA's jurisdiction over the regulation of animal waste, past actions taken by the FDA and several other federal agencies, and proposed action being considered by the FDA. State regulations with respect to refeeding will be reviewed, and the relationship between the federal and state programs will be discussed.Interpretation of FDA's Jurisdiction. The Food and Drug Administration is charged with the responsibility of administering the dictates of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, which became law in 1906. It was rewritten in 1938, and has been amended several times during the intervening years. One of the more notable amendments was the 1958 food additives amendment, which is especially relevant to feeding animal waste and which will be discussed below.

THIS paper will discuss future directions for undergraduate curricula in agriculture and animal science. I will not speculate about future careers in animal science, and the requirements these occupations will place on tomorrow's animal science graduates. I could only make broad—perhaps meaningless— generalizations in this area. However, I do assert that the undergraduate curriculum in animal science will continue to serve an important role.The ideas that I will present are a synthesis of the recommendations of various committees, panels and conferences sponsored by the Commission on Education in Agriculture and Natural Resources (CEANAR).In discussing future undergraduate curricula, I will look at four major segments of the agricultural curriculum: (1) biological sciences, (2) physical sciences and mathematics, (3) social sciences and humanities and (4) agriculture. Although I will give someattention to the number of courses in the various disciplines, I believe that it is more important to be concerned about the contentof the courses our student take.