January 19, 2011

State of feed additives in new legal environment

Regulation (EC) no. 1831/2003 concerning additives for feed stipulated that all feed additives had to be reassessed by 8 November 2010. A short time after that, the Commission made a distinction in the Online European Feed Additive Database. The first part of the Feed Additives Database (Appendix 4, Annex 1) includes all feed additives which were admitted between 2003 and 8 November 2010 and the feed additives for which a file had been received for reassessment on 8 November 2010.

The second part (Annex 2) lists all feed additives for which no file for reassessment had been received by 8 November. This latter group of feed additives will be prohibited within a foreseeable period of time. It is not clear yet whether a so-called withdrawal will be issued. At any rate, there will be regulations about selling out periods and the Commission will explore measures to prevent these prohibited additives from reaching the market as feed material. Within this context also the work of the Commission on the "grey list products" has been of relevance.

"Grey list” products are products which on the one hand consist of feed additives which are also used as feed (double listing) and on the other hand of products about which there has been a great deal of discussion in recent years whether they are feed additives, feed materials or even veterinary medical products. This discussion was completed in October with the publication of Regulation (EU) no. 892/201. Read more...

This blog is written by Martin Little The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine from Perendale Publishers.


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