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Feeding Stuffs - Quality Standards Latest
News Latest News Are you a feed business operator? Do you:
If you do any of the above regulations require you to make a statement that the establishments under your control comply with the various conditions of the Feed Hygiene Regulations. If your establishment is based in Shropshire, follow the link below for a standard form, to make your statement of compliance. Please download the form, complete it, sign it and then post it back to us. (Original signatures are required). Our address is Trading Standards Farmers should complete Form A and all other feed business operators (e.g. merchants, haulage firms, food producers supplying for animal feed) should complete Form B. Statement of Compliance - Form A Statement of Compliance - Form B If you require any further details you can read the following information leaflets - please see the links below or contact the us on 01743 254131. If you are unable to download and of the forms or leaflets, please phone the above telephone number and we can post one out to you. These files are Adobe Acrobat pdf files. To view one or more of these files you will require Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is free for download from the Adobe website. Information on Compliance Statements Information on Animal Feed Hygiene for Farmers IntroductionWe check that the quality, composition, labelling, advertising and presentation of fertilisers and feeding stuffs comply with statutory requirements - in particular the 1970 Agriculture Act. The checks we perform help to ensure that farmers:
Feeding Stuffs - Inspection and Sampling It is very important that we check the quality of animal feeding stuffs because:
Feed
Hygiene Regulations EC183/2005 and The Feed (Hygiene And Enforcement)
(England) Regulations 2005 The Feed Hygiene Regulation (183/2005) came into effect on 1 January 2006. It applies to businesses that make, use, transport, store or sell animal feeds. This includes most livestock farms, arable farms that grow, use or sell crops for feed use, and also fish farms, feed hauliers, importers of feed and feed storage businesses. The previous legislation applying to farmers that mixed feeds containing additives on the farm and manufacturers and sellers of feed of certain feed additives has been replaced. (Feeding Stuffs (Establishments and Intermediaries) Regulations 1999). The regulations require that all businesses will have to follow basic hygiene procedures in relation to feed that they grow, use, store, transport or manufacture to ensure that hazards are controlled. The majority of these requirements will already be in place and are generally very similar to the conditions imposed by the Establishments and Intermediaries Regulations. The controls required include measures to:-
Who needs
to Register? Businesses selling
by products from the food industry for animal feed, other farms with
livestock, fish farms and arable farms that grow, use or sell feed do
not need to register with their local authority to continue their activities
as long as they are registered under another official scheme. If they
are not registered on an official scheme then farmers need to register
with the local authority. To register you need to fill in a registration
form. Shropshire County
Council Trading Standards Service, Many farms will be registered under an official scheme for grant purposes but examples of such schemes can be found at http://www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/officschemes.pdf. Farms in this category will need to comply with the new requirements by 1 January 2008. All Shropshire based feed business operators that had to register by 1 January 2006 under the Feed Hygiene legislation now need to notify this Service that they are complying with the requirements. Please see the links below for a form to assist you with making the statement. If your establishment is based in Shropshire, follow the link below for a standard form, to make your statement of compliance. Please download the form, complete it, sign it and then post it back to us. (Original signatures are required). Our address is Trading Standards Farmers should complete Form A and all other feed business operators (e.g. merchants, haulage firms, food producers supplying for animal feed) should complete Form B. Statement of Compliance - Form A Statement of Compliance - Form B If you require any further details you can read the following information leaflets - please see the links below or contact the us on 01743 254131. If you are unable to download and of the forms or leaflets, please phone the above telephone number and we can post one out to you. These files are Adobe Acrobat pdf files. To view one or more of these files you will require Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is free for download from the Adobe website. Information on Compliance Statements Information on Animal Feed Hygiene for Farmers
What Activities
are not covered?
The Agriculture
Act 1970, provides for an exemption of 25kg but there is no definition
of ‘small quantities’ in the new regulations. Further information can be found on the FSA website www.food.gov.uk or the European Union website has a copy of the regulation. The standards which apply to primary producers are detailed in Annex 1 of the regulation and annex 3 provides the detail of the code of practice for feeding food producing animals. Annex 2 details
the requirements for manufacturers, hauliers, merchants and farms buying
in and using feed additives and premixtures as such will have to apply
the principles of HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points
system). RPSGB (Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain) If you mix zootechnical additives, e.g. Antibiotics, coccidiostats, growth promoters etc., you must apply for approval with the RPSGB. This is not an authoritative
statement of the law. It is intended for guidance only. Reference must
be made to the legislation for more detailed information.
Fertilisers This Service is committed to ensuring the quality of fertilisers, as what is applied to the land, is vitally important, as it is the start of the foodchain. Shropshire is a very rural county, so farming is of great significance to its economy. We call unannounced at manufacturers to take samples of solid and liquid fertilisers. The method of sampling is similar to how we sample feedingstuffs, mentioned in the previous section of this page. The samples we take are sent of to the Public Analyst, to ensure they contain the correct declared levels of nutrients, the main ones being Nitrogen, Phosporous and Potassium. Any discrepancies between the declared and actual content are subsequently investigated. Garden fertilisers
are also covered by the Agriculture Act. Controls on Garden fertilisers
are also provided by the same legislation as agricultural land fertilisers.
(Agriculture Act 1970 and regulations made under it)
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Page last reviewed November 2007 Shropshire County
Council Trading Standards Service
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