Feeding Stuffs, the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) and the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) (Amendment) (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2004 (S.I. No. 2688 of 2004).

Subject: Livestock, Fisheries
Keyword: Internal trade Inspection Animal feed/feedstuffs
Geographical area: Atlantic Ocean Islands, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Atlantic, North Sea, North-East Atlantic, Northern Europe
Entry into force notes: Coming into force on 19 November 2004.

Abstract: Regulation 2 of these Regulations amends the 2000 Regulations by: (a) requiring that analysis indicating the level of inorganic arsenic in certain feeding stuffs or feed materials must be provided on request to the competent authority (par. (2)); (b) making detailed amendments to the list of prohibited materials set out in regulation 15 of the 2000 Regulations, and extending to the circulation or use as feed materials the existing prohibition on the circulation or use in connection with compound feeding stuffs (par. (3)); (c) adding to Part IX of Schedule 3 eight new European Commission Regulations authorising new additives or new uses of certain additives in feeding stuffs, or as the case may be making permanent the existing provisional authorisation of an additive (par. (4)). (d) amending the prescribed limits for undesirable substances set out in Schedule 7 of the 2000 Regulations in respect of arsenic, fluorine, lead, aflatoxin B1, free gossypol and endosulphan (par. (5)); regulations 3 to 5 make consequential amendments to references to the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 2000 as they appear in various Regulations and in the Agriculture Act 1970.
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