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The District of Columbia has no pet food or commercial feed registration or license. Product fee: none. License or firm fee: none. Tonnage report: no.
| Agency | None: the District of Columbia has no pet food or feed regulator. DC Health (Environmental Health Administration) licenses food businesses for people, pet shops and other animal businesses.Source: dchealth.dc.gov · DC Health's Animal Services Program issues dog licenses, hobby permits, pigeon coop permits, prohibited animal and special event permits and veterinary hospital licenses; none covers pet food. |
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| What's registered | None: The District of Columbia has no pet food or commercial feed registration or license.Source: code.dccouncil.gov · The D.C. Code has no commercial feed or pet food law. Its titles include Title 8 (Environmental and Animal Control and Protection) and Title 48 (Foods and Drugs), and neither has a feed chapter. A full-text search of the official D.C. Code (the DC Council's bulk XML, updated October 1, 2026) found no “commercial feed”, “animal feed”, “feedstuff” or animal remedy law, and no pet food law. The District's food adulteration law (D.C. Code §§ 48-101 to 48-110) covers food “for human consumption” only (§ 48-102(4)). DCMR Title 25 (Food Operations and Community Hygiene Facilities) has no feed subtitle. |
| Product registration fee | NoneSource: code.dccouncil.gov · No registration, so no product fee. |
| Package-size rule | Not applicableSource: code.dccouncil.gov |
| License / firm fee | NoneSource: code.dccouncil.gov · No feed or pet food license. DC Health's Animal Services license list has no pet food license. |
| Registration period | Not applicableSource: code.dccouncil.gov |
| Renewal due | Not applicableSource: code.dccouncil.gov |
| Tonnage report required? | NoSource: code.dccouncil.gov · No feed law, so no tonnage report or inspection fee. |
| Tonnage report frequency | Not applicableSource: code.dccouncil.gov |
| Tonnage report due | Not applicableSource: code.dccouncil.gov |
| Form or portal | NoneSource: code.dccouncil.gov · No registration form: the District of Columbia has no registration. |
| License / firm form | NoneSource: code.dccouncil.gov · No registration form: the District of Columbia has no registration. |
| What to send | Nothing to register.Source: code.dccouncil.gov |
| Home-kitchen pet treats | No published rule No published rule found on selling pet treats made in a home kitchen; ask DC Health. Agency page.Source: dchealth.dc.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. A DC cottage food business may not make or sell pet treats; DC's cottage food program is for food for people only.Source: dchealth.dc.gov · DC Health Cottage Food FAQs (April 2018), Q16: “Am I allowed to make and sell pet treats? ANSWER: No. Cottage food business owners are not allowed to prepare or sell food that is not intended for human consumption.” Selling homemade dog treats in District of Columbia |
Checked October 3, 2026 against the linked agency pages, forms and statutes.
Also see: AAFCO's District of Columbia page. AAFCO's state pages show no update date.
Same rules as pet food Same: the District of Columbia has no registration or license for horse, livestock, poultry or wild-bird feed either.Source: code.dccouncil.gov · The D.C. Code has no commercial feed law of any kind.
For other animal feed in District of Columbia: product fee None; license or firm fee None; tonnage report no.
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