1. DG SANCO - Animal Nutrition
TEC feed seminar (7 march 2013, Bangkok) Regulatory framework for Feed in the European Union (EU): Marketing of feed materials, compound feed and feed additives - Feed Hygiene - Feed Control
Dr. Wolfgang Trunk
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DG SANCO - Animal Nutrition

2. Legislative structure Feed marketing (Reg 767/2009)
Outline
Legislative structure
Feed marketing (Reg 767/2009)
Feed additives (Reg 1831/2003)
GM-Feed (Reg 1829/2003)
Feed Hygiene (Reg 183/2005)
Animal By-Products (Reg 1069/2009)
Feed Control (Reg 882/2004)
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3. Legislative structure (1)
Basic Legislation on EU feed law is set in Directives or Regulations of the European Parliament and the Council (27 Member States) adoption based on Commission proposal.
COM-Regulations to implement basic acts
Trend to Regulations as directly applicable (no transposition in national law)

4. Categories of feed (legal base)
Feed Materials
(767/2009)
Feed Additives and Premixtures (1831/2003)
Medicated Feed (90/167)
Compound Feed (767/2009)
Complete Feed Complementary Feed
Dietetic Feed "ParNuts" (767/2009)

5. 767/2009
Regulation (EC) N° 767/2009 on the placing on the market and use of feed
Scope: feed materials & compound feed (including pet food)
No pre-market authorisation procedure for feed material: Feed business operator is in the first hand responsible for their safety
“Bio-proteins” became ordinary feed materials
Chapter on dietetic feed ("ParNuts")
List of materials prohibited/restricted for feed use ("negative list")
Feed materials not listed in the EU-Catalogue must be contained in feed material register

6. 767/2009
Labelling rules for additives in feed materials & compound feed (ex!)
Tolerances for analytical constituents AND feed additives
Feed additive functions can be claimed for FM and compound feed (scientific substantiation in the moment of marketing;
The MS-authority … may submit the issue of doubtful claims to the Commission who may adopt a decision. Pilot discussion at EU level on a pre-biotic (MOS)

7. 767/2009
Additive labelling in feed materials and compound feed
The name of the additive, identification number and the added amount; example for Zinc*:
Compounds of trace elements, mg/kg (in brackets trace element)
Zinc chelate of hydroxy analogue of methionine, 3b6.10: 250 (50); Zinc chelate of amino acids hydrate, E6: 300 (50); Zinc sulphate, monohydrate, E6: 150 (50); all Zinc compounds:150)
* Voluntary labelling in blue

8. 767/2009
Authorisation of feed for particular nutritional purposes = dietetic feed
Parnuts = special claim - borderline with vet medicine
“Exclusivity” of parnut with respect to essential nutritional characteristics and animal species? Example:
Parnut: "Support of renal function in case of chronic renal insufficiency"
Essential nutritional characteristics:
"- Low level of phosphorus and restricted level of protein but of high quality (dogs and cats) or - Reduced phosphorus absorption by means of incorporation of Lanthanum carbonate octahydrate (adult cats)"

9. Feed Additive Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003
Ban on antimicrobial growth promoters as additives
pre-marketing authorisation => Principle of a positive list: only what is in the list can be placed on the market and can be used as additive in feed under conditions clearly established (type of feed, level of addition, animals intended to consume the feed, etc…)
Current Register with almost 2500 additives
Labelling of additives and premixtures

10. Definition of feed additives
1831/2003
Definition of feed additives
substances, micro-organisms or preparations, other than feed material and premixtures, which are intentionally added to feed or water in order to perform, in particular, one or more specific functions.
5 Categories are currently established for the different functions:

11. 1. Technological additives
1831/2003
1. Technological additives
Preservatives
Antioxidants
Emulsifiers, Stabilisers, Thickeners, Gelling agents, Binders
Substances for control of radionucleides
Anticaking agents
Acidity regulators
Silage additives
Denaturants
Mycotoxin contamination reducers

12. 1831/2003 2. Sensory additives Colourants Flavouring compounds
3. Nutritional additives
Colourants
Flavouring compounds
Vitamins and vitamin-like
Trace elements
Amino acids
Urea and derivatives

13. 4. Zootechnical additives
1831/2003
4. Zootechnical additives
5. Coccidiostats and histomonostats
Digestibility enhancers
Gut flora stabilisers
Substances which favourably affect the environment
Other zootechnical additives
Substances intended to kill or inhibit protozoa

14. The different roles by the different actors

15. General aspects of applications for authorisation
EURL for Feed Additives. Regulation (EC) No 378/2005 details the rules for the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 and provides the practical conditions for the duties and tasks of the EURL.
Additional tasks are assigned to the EURL by Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 on official controls performed to ensure the verification of compliance with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare rules. In accordance with this regulation, sampling and analysis in the context of official controls are carried out by official laboratories designated by Cas in each MS
Guidance documents available on website
Specific presentation on EURL tasks and activities by Mr De Jong
General aspects of applications for authorisation
Application to the Commission
Technical dossier to EFSA
Reference samples and the part of the technical dossier with the methods of analysis to the EURL

16. EURL for Feed Additives
COM Regulation 378/2005 details the rules for the implementation of Regulation 1831/2003 and provides the practical conditions for the duties and tasks of the EURL
Additional tasks are assigned to the EURL by Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 on official controls performed to ensure the verification of compliance with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare rules. In accordance with this regulation, sampling and analysis in the context of official controls are carried out by official laboratories designated by CAs in each MS
Guidance documents available on website
Specific presentation on EURL tasks and activities by Mr De Jong

17. Guidelines for the application for authorisation of feed additives:
COM Regulation 429/2008

18. Regulation 429 /2008

19. European Commission =>
1831/2003
After EFSA:
& Member States
Standing Committee on the Food Chain
European
Commission
=>

20. 1831/2003
Register of EU-authorised feed additives: comm_register_feed_additives_ pdf
=> Although the EU authorisation regime may look complex, it is probably the best systems in terms of safety and efficacy evaluation, transparency, predictability and quickness compared to the in other parts of the world

21. Reg (EC) No 1829/2003 on GM food and feed
Authorisation procedure for GMOs (=> Register)
State of play "new approach" on freedom for Member States to deny on their territory cultivation of authorised GM-crops on "grounds other than those based on a scientific assessment of health and environmental risks"
NO labelling for the adventitious or technically unavoidable presence of authorised GM food and feed in a proportion that is no higher than 0.9 %.
Regulation EC 619/2011 harmonising the implementation of the zero-tolerance policy on non-authorised GM-material in feed - Sets a technical zero at a level of 0.1 %

22. Maize (Bt11) SYN-BT Ø11-1 [ Syngenta ]
1829/2003
Maize (Bt11) SYN-BT Ø [ Syngenta ]
Genetically modified maize that contains: the cryIA (b) gene inserted to confer insect-resistance the pat gene inserted to confer tolerance to the herbicide glufosinate-ammonium
Foods and food ingredients containing, consisting of, or produced from SYN-BTØ11-1xMON-ØØØ21-9
27/07/2020
Feed containing, consisting of, or produced from SYN-BTØ11-1xMON-ØØØ21-9
Products other than food and feed containing or consisting of SYN-BTØ11-1xMON-ØØØ21-9

23. 183/2005
Feed Hygiene 183/2005
Covers all feed business operations except retail of pet food
Regulates manufacturing standards for FBOs,
Introduces HACCP for Annex-II-FBOs i.e. apart from primary production
Foresees approval or registration of FBOs depending on activity
Encourages "Guides for good manufacturing practice" Self-regulation – Industry scheme – NO safety insurance => the adherence to a certain scheme like FAMI-QS might improve the manufacturing in the additive factory but does not imply for the control authorities in the EU an assumed safety of the products or even safety certification!

24. 183/2005
Import rules for feed containing animal products including pet food => ABP-Reg 1069/2009: harmonised import rules – certificates Marketing rules acc 767/2009
Import rules for feed of non-animal origin including additives: NO Third Country lists nor establishments lists of the TC => importer as responsible FBO must be on MS list
Revision of annex II by Reg 225/2012 ("dioxin package"): approval of establishments placing on the market, for feed use, products derived from vegetable oils and blended fats and as regards the specific requirements for production, storage, transport and dioxin testing

25. Categorisation of ABPs: 1 – 2 – 3 Processing standards
1069/2009
Regulation 1069/2009 on animal by-products not intended for human consumption => animal and public health protection
Categorisation of ABPs: 1 – 2 – 3
Processing standards
Channelling for the different products
Catering waste prohibition in feed
Prohibition intra-species recycling
Feed ban laid down in Annex IV of TSE-Regulation 999/2001 (recently revised by Reg. 56/2013) 25

26. Regulation 882/2004 on official controls on feed and food
To ensure they are done on a risk basis = with appropriate frequency
To establish EU framework for greater harmonisation and the integration of controls across the entire food and feed chain (“farm to fork”)
EU list with high risk products of non-animal origin (Art 15 V) => increased and harmonised import controls
To establish a community and national reference laboratories network;
Requirement for CAs to prepare of a single integrated multi-annual national control plan for effective implementation of the Regulation;
To organise and develop a Community food safety training strategy “Better Training for Safer Food” 26

27. 882/2004
Reg 669/2009 on increased level of official controls on imports of certain feed and food of non-animal:
Import procedure: DPE, Common Entry Doc (CED),
List: intended use - CN code - Country of origin – Hazard - Frequency physical + id-checks
Thailand only listed with food
Ex: Groundnuts (peanuts), in shell (Feed and food) India (IN) – Aflatoxins – 20%
Ex: Feed additives and premixtures - ex India (IN) - Cadmium and lead - 10% 27

28. EU food safety system has been completely reformed since 2000
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EU food safety system has been completely reformed since 2000
Establishment of the "farm to fork" principle includes in particular feed safety, in concrete by the
provisions on feed hygiene
marketing rules for feed
integration in system for official controls
Reg 1831/2003 made
EU system with centralised authorisation procedure based on an independent risk assessment world class
EU a pioneer on reduction of AGPs (AMR!)

29. Questions ?