Feed News from Europe

EU moots relaxation of pig, poultry BSE feed rules

The European Union could lift a ban on the use of animal protein in pig and poultry feed -- imposed in 2001 as part of efforts to fight mad cow disease -- under plans published by the bloc's executive on Friday.

The idea is one of several moves to relax EU measures against bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and other transmissible forms of the brain-wasting disease.

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European guide for safe feed manufacturing released

The European Guide to good practice for the industrial manufacturing of safe feed materials was endorsed by the European Commission and the EU Member States on the 1st July 2010.

Following the adoption of the 2005 EU Feed Hygiene Regulation that encourages the development of sector guides to good practice on hygiene and HACCP principles by the feed sector, the European starch industry (AAF) and the European oilseed and protein meal industry (FEDIOL) have jointly developed such a Guide including sector specific notes.

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First GLOBALG.A.P Feed Certificate goes to Havsbrún Feed Mill

Cologne, Germany -- Food Certification International certifies feed producer Havsbrún in accordance with the new GLOBALG.A.P Standard for Compound Feed Manufacturers.

The launch of version 2.0 of its Compound Feed Manufacturing Standard is part of GLOBALG.A.P´s range of standards complementary to the Integrated Farm Assurance standard for livestock and aquaculture.

Marita Rasmussen (left) Hjordis Gregersen (right)When it comes to the production of livestock and aquaculture species for human consumption, the production and sourcing of compound feed play a crucial role for food safety.

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Netherlands: call for ban therapeutic antibiotics in animal feed

The Dutch organisation for the animal feed industry (Nevedi) would like to stop the use of therapeutic antibiotics in feed as soon as possible, in cooperation with livestock producers and veterinarians.

This way, Nevedi hopes to contribute finding a solution to the problem of antibiotic resistance in both humans and animals. A minority of the antibiotics in Dutch livestock production are supplied through compound feed. Especially in pig production, veterinarians still prescribe medicated feed containing antibiotics, after consultation with producers themselves. Since 2008, the production of feed containing antibiotics has come down.

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UK animal feed industry to ‘benefit’ from new guidelines

UK - The animal feed industry is likely to welcome the new simplified system used to recording stocks.

The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has changed previous guidelines which required farmers to record where the animal feed was bought and whether it was sold on, reports worldpoulty.net.

Many farmers were critical of these laws, put forward in the Meat Products Regulations 2003, which wasted time and money.

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