Undesirable Substances in Animal Feeds (Amendment)

L.N. 16 of 2007

VETERINARY SERVICES ACT, 2001

(ACT NO. XXIII OF 2001)

Undesirable Substances in Animal Feeds (Amendment)

Rules, 2007

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 22(c) of the

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

Environment has made the following rules>–

(1) The title of these regulations is the Undesirable Title and Scope.

Substances in Animal Feeds (Amendment) Rules, 2005.

L.N. 81 of 2005.

(2) The scope of these rules is to implement the provisions

found under Commission Directive 2005#8#EC of 27th January, 2005

amending Annex I to Directive 2002#32#EC of the European Parliament

and of the Council on undesirable substances in animal feed and they

shall be read and construed as one with as Undesirable Substances in

Animal Feeds Rules, 2005, herinafter referred to as “the principal rules”.

Schedule I to the principal regulations shall be amended as Amends Schedule I

to the principal

follows>–

regulations.

(a) In column 2 of row 2, Lead, the following footnote is

inserted after the word “green fodder”>

“(*) green fodder includes products intended for animal

feed such as hay, silage, fresh grass, etc …”<

(b) in row 3, Fluorine,

(i) Footnotes (1) and (2) are deleted<

(ii) The words “Mineral mixtures for cattle, sheep and

goats – 2 000 (1)” and “Other complementary feedingstuffs

– 125 (2)” are substituted by the words “Complementary

feedingstuffs containing ≤ 4 % phosphorus – 500” and

“Complementary feedingstuffs containing › 4 % phosphorus–

125 per 1 % phosphorus” respectively< and

(c)

row 4, Mercury, is substituted as follows>

Undesirable substances

Products intended for

Maximum content in

animal feed

mg#kg (ppm) relative to a

feedingstuff

with a moisture content

of 12 %

(1)

(2)

(3)

“

Mercury

Feed materials with the 0,1

exception of>

– feedingstuffs produced by 0,5

the processing of fish or

other marine animals

– calcium carbonate

0,3

Complete feedingstuffs with 0,1

the exception of>

– complete feedingstuffs for 0,4

dogs and cats

Complementary feeding-

stuffs except

– complementary feeding- 0,2”

stuffs for dogs and cats

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