Animal Feed Hygiene
Trading Standards, working in partnership with the Food
Standards Agency (FSA) is responsible for the enforcement of feed
hygiene legislation at agricultural and stockholding premises in
the Vale of Glamorgan.
Animal feed plays an important part in the food chain and has
implications for the composition and quality of the livestock
products (milk, meat and eggs) that people consume.
Trading Standards' main aims in this area are to help protect
consumer and animal health. Another aim is to ensure that those
buying the feed are provided with sufficient information to allow
them to make informed choices.
Feed Premises Register
Under the EU Feed Hygiene Regulation (183/2005), there is a
system for the approval and registration of feed business
establishments (premises) that manufacture, market, distribute or
use animal feeds, including manufacturers and retailers selling
by-products of food production into the feed chain and livestock
farmers and arable farms growing crops for feed use.
The approval and registration of feed premises is mainly carried
out by Trading Standards.
Approval requires an inspection visit to the establishment by
the local authority before the establishment is allowed to operate.
Registration requires placing the establishment on a list to enable
authorities to carry follow-up checks and take enforcement action
as appropriate.
Feed Hygiene
EU Regulation 183/2005 on feed hygiene applies at all points in
the supply and use of feed, and requires feed businesses to comply
with standards in respect of facilities, storage, personnel and
record-keeping.
The regulation is enforced in Wales through the Feed (Hygiene
and Enforcement) (Wales) Regulations 2005. This legislation also
covers the feed-related aspects of EU Regulation 178/2002 on the
general principles of food law (which includes feed law), which
prohibits the marketing of unsafe feed and requires feed business
to have traceability procedures in place.
Useful Documents