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Arizona pet food & treat registration

Arizona registers: per firm: a commercial feed license for each manufacturing or distribution facility. No product registration; the license covers any feed with your company name on the label. Product fee: None. License or firm fee: $10 per facility/yr. Tonnage report: yes.

The facts, with sources

AgencyArizona Department of Agriculture (AZDA), Environmental Services Division; applications go to AZDA Central LicensingSource: agriculture.az.gov · agriculture.az.gov blocks automated access; page text read from the Internet Archive copy of 2025-11-07.
What's registeredPer firm: a commercial feed license for each manufacturing or distribution facility. No product registration; the license covers any feed with your company name on the label.Source: agriculture.az.gov
Product registration feeNone (Arizona has no product registration)Source: agriculture.az.gov
Package-size ruleNo package-size ruleSource: agriculture.az.gov · Registration of individual products is not required; there is no small-package fee.
License / firm fee$10 per facility per year (a 2-year license is $20)Source: apps.azsos.gov · A.A.C. R3-3-902(A) and A.R.S. 3-2609(B). Firms with no Arizona place of business also pay $10 per year.
Registration periodLicense year July 1 to June 30; term of 1 or 2 years at the applicant's choiceSource: apps.azsos.gov · A.A.C. R3-3-902(B).
Renewal dueBefore the license expires on June 30 (every year or every other year, depending on the term chosen)Source: apps.azsos.gov
Tonnage report required?Yes, every licensee reports, even with no sales. Firms exempt from the license (reselling a licensee's packaged feed as received) don't report.Source: agriculture.az.gov · A.R.S. 3-2606(A)(2) for the exempt-distributor rule.
Tonnage report frequencyQuarterly (calendar quarters). A licensee with 400 tons or less a year that doesn't pass the fee to buyers may file one annual estimate instead.
Fee depends on tonnage; see the agency.Source: apps.azsos.gov · A.A.C. R3-3-903(A)(3) and (B).
Tonnage report dueLast day of January, April, July and October for the previous quarter; annual estimate (with last year's verification) by July 31Source: apps.azsos.gov · Fee depends on tonnage; see the agency.
Form or portalhttps://agriculture.az.gov/sites/default/files/2023.02%20-%20Feed%20-%20FEEDPACKET.pdfSource: agriculture.az.gov · No product registration form. This 'Feed - Packet and Registration Form' on the AZDA Feed page holds the New Commercial Feed License Application. The page's separate fillable application link (2023.06_-_FEED_License_Application.pdf) returned 404 in archive checks.
License / firm formhttps://agriculture.az.gov/sites/default/files/2023.02%20-%20Feed%20-%20FEEDPACKET.pdfSource: agriculture.az.gov · New Commercial Feed License Application, inside the feed packet. Mail with a check; AZDA also has an online licensing system (applications.azda.gov), but whether it offers the feed license could not be confirmed.
What to sendNew Commercial Feed License Application (one per manufacturing or distribution facility) with $10 per year of the term by check to the Arizona Department of Agriculture ESD, your federal tax ID number, and a copy of each feed label you will sell in Arizona (a proof sheet or electronic copy, not packaging). Mail to AZDA Central Licensing, 1802 W Jackson St., #78, Phoenix, AZ 85007.Source: agriculture.az.gov
Home-kitchen pet treatsNo published rule No published rule found on selling pet treats made in a home kitchen; ask the Arizona Department of Agriculture (commercial feed). Agency page.Source: agriculture.az.gov · We read the agency's pet food and feed pages, its law and rules, and the state's cottage food rules, and found no statement either way on making pet treats in a home kitchen.
Selling homemade dog treats in Arizona

Checked October 3, 2026 against the linked agency pages, forms and statutes.

Also see: AAFCO's Arizona page. AAFCO's state pages show no update date.

Horse, livestock, poultry and wild-bird feed

Same rules as pet food Same as pet food: one commercial feed license covers all feed. No product registration.Source: agriculture.az.gov

For other animal feed in Arizona: product fee None; license or firm fee $10 per facility/yr; tonnage report yes.

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