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Dioxin crisis report urges reforms for animal feed safety

Ireland - The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) should be given the job of monitoring the safety of animal feed, according to an inter-agency review, chaired by Dr Patrick Wall, of the dioxin crisis of 2008.

The report, which took into account the findings of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food and direct submissions, contains 39 conclusions and recommendations on all the issues surrounding a crisis that cost Irish taxpayers over €150 million.

• Continue reading • Comments (0) 19.01.2010. 23:47

Final commissioning of bioplant/feed plant stalled by weather

The spell of severe weather is not only affecting farmers and their livestock: yesterday the man behind what will be the biggest biofuel plant in western Europe expressed his frustration at the weather.
Alywn Hughes, the chief executive of Ensus, which when it is at full production will take in 1.2 million tonnes of wheat annually at its site on Teesside, said the final commissioning was being hampered by the weather.

Test runs in the plant were taking longer with pipes and pumps freezing up because of the cold but despite these last-minute frustrations and slight delays, he claimed they were now "very very close" to getting the whole operation underway.

• Continue reading • Comments (0) 12.01.2010. 20:12

Legal actions over animal feed dioxins deferred

Ireland - A number of legal actions against a Co Wexford company over allegedly supplying animal feed containing harmful dioxins have been deferred by the Commercial Court until July to allow the putting in place of a scheme of arrangement between the company and creditors arising out of the contamination.

However, Millstream Recycling Ltd’s own action is to proceed against a businessman and a company over allegedly supplying it with recycled 40-year-old fuel oil which in turn allegedly contaminated the feed.

• Continue reading • Comments (0) 12.01.2010. 20:07

EU: Better value corn-based poultry diets

The EU Commission has granted Danisco Animal Nutrition authorisation for the use of its more heat stable and more concentrated xylanase, amylase and protease enzyme combination (Avizyme® 1505) for corn-based broiler, turkey and duck feed.

• Continue reading • Comments (0) 05.01.2010. 19:43

De Heus was granted permission to continue production

Dutch Feed miller De Heus was granted permission to continue production at its Ravenstein location after regional government had halted production in a previous statement.The regional government of the North Brabant Province in the Netherlands was overruled by the Council of State in its decision to halt feed manufacturing at the feed mill of De Heus.

The Council said the Province was not allowed to stop production at the mill although the maximum allowed volume of feed laid down in an environmental permit had been exceeded.

• Continue reading • Comments (0) 05.12.2009. 12:35