Methods of Analysis for the Official Control of Feedingstuffs

L.N. 62 of 2006

VETERINARY SERVICES ACT

(CAP. 437)

Methods of Analysis for the Official Control of Feedingstuffs

(Amendment) Rules, 2006

In exercise of the powers conferred by article 25 of the Veterinary

Services Act, 2001, the Minister for Rural Affairs and the Environment

has made the following rules>–

(1) The title to these rules is the Methods of Analysis for the Title.

Official Control of Feedingstuffs (Amendment) Rules, 2006 and they

shall be read and construed with the Methods of Analysis for the Official

Control of Feedingstuffs Rules, 2005, hereinafter referred to as “the L.N. 285 of 2005.

principal rules”

Part C of the Schedule to the principal rules shall be substituted Amends Schedule

to the principal

by the following new part>–

rules.

“C.

Observations concerning Methods A and B

1. Defatting

Samples containing more than 5 % fats must be defatted with

light petroleum (bp 40 to 60 degrees C) after the preparations

indicated in 5.1.

In such cases, the analytical results must be expressed in terms

of the weight of the non-defatted sample.

2. Reproducibility of the results for Method A

The reproducibility of the results, i.e. the variation between

the results obtained by two or more laboratories on the same sample

has been estimated at>

± 50 % of the mean value for mean values of aflatoxin B,

from 10 and up to 20 mg#kg<

± 10 mg#kg of the mean value for mean values greater than

20 and up to 50 mg#kg<

± 20 % of the mean value for mean values above 50 mg#kg.”.

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