The Zootechnical Animal Food Substance is a pending category to evaluate applications as foods though they technically meet the definition of a new animal drug. The categories of additives include
1) Environmental impacts,
2) Impacts upon the gastrointestinal flora,
3) Reduction of food-borne pathogens of human importance
Congressional action will be required for this category to become an official FDA program, but in the mean time CVM is accepting submissions on a case by case basis which will be evaluated under enforcement discretion.