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Rhode Island registers: per product: every commercial feed, including pet food and treats, distributed in Rhode Island is registered each year. No firm license. Product fee: $60/yr. License or firm fee: None. Tonnage report: no.
| Agency | Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM), Division of Agriculture and Forest Environment (DAFE)Source: dem.ri.gov · DAFE's Commercial Feed Registration user guide (PDF, October 2024). Phone 401-222-2781, weekdays 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM. The agency url is DEM's portal help page, which refuses scripted access (HTTP 403); it was read in the Wayback Machine. |
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| What's registered | Per product: every commercial feed, including pet food and treats, distributed in Rhode Island is registered each year. No firm license.Source: webserver.rilegislature.gov · R.I. Gen. Laws § 4-2-4(b). Customer formula feed is not registered. § 4-2-4(a) also requires anyone who manufactures commercial feed in Rhode Island to file its name, place of business and the location of each manufacturing facility with the director; no fee is set for that. |
| Product registration fee | $60 per product per yearSource: webserver.rilegislature.gov · § 4-2-4(b): “a sixty dollar ($60.00) per brand registration fee”; a tag, label or facsimile is sent “for each brand to be registered.” DEM's older paper form (https://dem.ri.gov/sites/g/files/xkgbur861/files/programs/agriculture/documents/feed2000.pdf) reads “$60.00 per product, brand or grade.” A 2021 budget bill proposed raising it to $100 (https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText21/HouseText21/Article-007.htm, Article 7, Section 2), but the current statute still says $60 and lists no amendment after 2004. |
| Package-size rule | No package-size rule. The fee is per product (brand).Source: webserver.rilegislature.gov · § 4-2-4(b) sets one flat fee per registration. |
| License / firm fee | None (Rhode Island has no firm license for feed or pet food)Source: webserver.rilegislature.gov · § 4-2-4 sets only the per-brand registration fee. |
| Registration period | Calendar year; all registrations expire December 31Source: webserver.rilegislature.gov · § 4-2-4(b). |
| Renewal due | By December 31. Renew in the DAFE Permit Application Portal; the Renew button appears 60 and 30 days before the expiry date.Source: dem.ri.gov · Expiry date from § 4-2-4(b). |
| Tonnage report required? | No. Rhode Island charges no feed inspection or tonnage fee, and its feed rule sets no tonnage report.Source: rules.sos.ri.gov · § 4-2-9(a) lets the director require records of tons distributed and examine them; no feed tonnage report or fee was found in 250-RICR-40-20-5 or chapter 4-2 (DEM's tonnage form is for fertilizer and lime). |
| Tonnage report frequency | Not applicableSource: rules.sos.ri.gov |
| Tonnage report due | Not applicableSource: rules.sos.ri.gov |
| Form or portal | https://demri.my.site.com/agr/s/login/Source: dem.ri.gov · DAFE Permit Application Portal (online since October 2024): Applications, Start an Application, Commercial Feed Registration. The DEM web page link “Agricultural Products Registration” goes to this portal. User guide: https://dem.ri.gov/sites/g/files/xkgbur861/files/2024-10/dafe-portal-guide-product-registration-commercial-feed-registration.pdf |
| License / firm form | NoneSource: webserver.rilegislature.gov · No firm license for pet food in Rhode Island. |
| What to send | In the portal: applicant and company information; a line for each brand and product; an uploaded label for each line; the attestation; and payment of $60 per product plus DEM's Enhanced Access Fee (5% by credit card, 3% by ACH).Source: dem.ri.gov · Steps from DAFE's user guide; label requirement in § 4-2-4(b). Enhanced Access Fee from DEM's portal FAQ. Read from the Wayback Machine capture of August 12, 2026 (https://web.archive.org/web/20260812070136/https://dem.ri.gov/dafe-portal-guidance) because dem.ri.gov web pages refuse scripted access (HTTP 403). |
| Home-kitchen pet treats | No published rule No published rule found on selling pet treats made in a home kitchen; ask the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, Division of Agriculture. Agency page.Source: dem.ri.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 Rhode Island |
Checked October 3, 2026 against the linked agency pages, forms and statutes.
Also see: AAFCO's Rhode Island page. AAFCO's state pages show no update date.
Same rules as pet food Same as pet food: every commercial feed product (horse, livestock, poultry, wild bird) is registered at $60 a year, except customer formula feed.Source: webserver.rilegislature.gov · § 4-2-4(b).
For other animal feed in Rhode Island: product fee $60/yr; license or firm fee None; tonnage report no.
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