Hanna to Co-Sponsor ‘Sustainable Use of Spent Grains’ Act

U.S. Representative Richard Hanna was at the Water Street Brewery in Binghamton Tuesday to discuss the FDA's proposal to require spent grain to be packaged and dried before sending to farmers.

Congressman Hanna said the proposal is burdensome to the 2,700 craft breweries in the US that employ over 110,000 people and provide more than $15 billion in economic activity, and to the small farms which use that spent grain for feed at minimal cost.

Hanna is co-sponsoring the "Protecting the Sustainable Use of Spent Grains Act," a bi-partisan agreement that would ban the FDA from regulating spent grains.

Hanna says the "nonsensical" FDA rule would put spent grain into landfills instead of providing food for farms at a low cost.