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Massachusetts registers: per product: every commercial feed and pet food product distributed in Massachusetts is registered each year. No firm license. Product fee: $100/yr. License or firm fee: None. Tonnage report: no.
| Agency | Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR), Feed ProgramSource: mass.gov |
|---|---|
| What's registered | Per product: every commercial feed and pet food product distributed in Massachusetts is registered each year. No firm license.Source: mass.gov · M.G.L. c.128 s.52 and 330 CMR 13.02. |
| Product registration fee | $100 per product per yearSource: mass.gov · 801 CMR 4.02, the state fee schedule (Mass. Register #1548, 5/23/2025): “Commercial Feed Registration (including Pet Food) 100”. MDAR's page also lists “Annual Registration Fee $100 per product”. M.G.L. c.128 §52 still says “The registration fee shall be twenty-five dollars.” That figure is older than the fee schedule: M.G.L. c.7 §3B has the Secretary of Administration and Finance set, by a promulgated schedule, the amount charged for any state “registration, regulation, license, fee, permit”, and 801 CMR 4.00 cites c.7 §3B as its authority. MDAR charges the schedule's $100. |
| Package-size rule | No package-size rule. One registration covers all package sizes of a product.Source: mass.gov |
| License / firm fee | None (Massachusetts has no firm license for feed or pet food)Source: mass.gov · MDAR's fee table lists only the per-product registration fee. |
| Registration period | Calendar year; all registrations expire December 31Source: malegislature.gov |
| Renewal due | Renew in EEA ePLACE between October 5 and December 31Source: mass.gov |
| Tonnage report required? | No. MDAR does not require tonnage reporting.Source: mass.gov |
| Tonnage report frequency | Not applicableSource: mass.gov |
| Tonnage report due | Not applicableSource: mass.gov |
| Form or portal | https://eplace.eea.mass.gov/citizenaccess/Default.aspxSource: mass.gov · Online only through the EEA ePLACE portal since November 2025; paper applications are no longer accepted. Step-by-step guides are linked from the MDAR page. |
| License / firm form | NoneSource: mass.gov · No firm license for pet food in Massachusetts. |
| What to send | An online application in EEA ePLACE with one label file per product (front and back in one file). MDAR reviews it and emails an invoice for the approved products; your list of approved products, sent after payment, is your registration certificate.Source: mass.gov |
| Home-kitchen pet treats | No published rule No published rule found on selling pet treats made in a home kitchen; ask the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (feed program). Agency page.Source: mass.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 Massachusetts |
Checked October 3, 2026 against the linked agency pages, forms and statutes.
Also see: AAFCO's Massachusetts page. AAFCO's state pages show no update date.
Same rules as pet food Same as pet food: every commercial feed product is registered at $100 a year, pet or not.Source: mass.gov · 801 CMR 4.02 sets “Commercial Feed Registration (including Pet Food)” at $100. M.G.L. c.128 §52: “Each commercial feed shall be registered before being distributed in the commonwealth”; the statute's older $25 figure (“The registration fee shall be twenty-five dollars”) is replaced in practice by the fee schedule, set under M.G.L. c.7 §3B; MDAR charges $100.
For other animal feed in Massachusetts: product fee $100/yr; license or firm fee None; tonnage report no.
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