CATEGORIES OF FEED MATERIALS WHICH MAY BE USED FOR THE PURPOSES OF LABELLING COMPOUND FEEDINGSTUFFS FOR PET ANIMALS

CATEGORIES OF FEED MATERIALS WHICH MAY BE

USED FOR THE PURPOSES OF LABELLING COMPOUND

FEEDINGSTUFFS FOR PET ANIMALS

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 437.56

CATEGORIES OF FEED MATERIALS WHICH MAY

BE USED FOR THE PURPOSES OF LABELLING

COMPOUND FEEDINGSTUFFS FOR PET ANIMALS

RULES

18th March, 2005

LEGAL NOTICE 77 of 2005.

(1) The title of these rules is the Categories of Feed

Materials which may be used for the Purposes of Labelling

Compound Feedingstuffs for Pet Animals Rules.

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

under European Union Commission Directive 82/475/EEC laying

down the categories of ingredients which may be used for the

purposes of labelling compound feedingstuffs for pet animals.

Categories of feed materials which may be indicated

in place of individual feed materials

Description of the category

Definition

1. Meat and animal derivatives All the fleshy parts of slaughtered warm-blooded land

animals, fresh or preserved by appropriate treatment, and

all products and derivatives of the processing of the carcase

or parts of the carcase of warm-blooded land animals

2. Milk and milk derivatives

All milk products, fresh or preserved by appropriate

treatment, and derivatives from the processing thereof

Where, pursuant to Article 5c(3) of European Union

Council Directive 79/373/EEC, the indication of the specific name

of the feed material can be replaced by the name of the category to

which the feed material belongs, only the categories listed in the

Schedule may be indicated on the packaging, container or label of

compound feedingstuffs for pet animals.

CATEGORIES OF FEED MATERIALS WHICH MAY BE

USED FOR THE PURPOSES OF LABELLING COMPOUND

FEEDINGSTUFFS FOR PET ANIMALS

Eggs and egg derivatives

All egg products fresh or preserved by appropriate

treatment and derivatives from the processing thereof

Oils and fats

All animal and vegetable oils and fats

Yeasts

All yeasts, the cells of which have been killed and dried

Fish and fish derivatives

Fish or parts of fish, fresh or preserved by appropriate

treatment, and derivatives from the processing thereof

Cereals

All types of cereal, regardless of their presentation, or

products made from the starchy endosperm

Vegetables

All types of vegetables and legumes, fresh or preserved by

appropriate treatment

Derivatives of vegetable Derivatives resulting from the treatment of vegetable

origin

products, in particular cereals, vegetables, legumes and oil

seeds

Vegetable protein extracts All products of vegetable origin in which the proteins have

been concentrated by an adequate process to contain at least

50% crude protein, as related to the dry matter, and which

may be restructured (textured)

Minerals

All inorganic substances suitable for animal feed

Various sugars

All types of sugar

Fruit

All types of fruit, fresh or preser ved b y app ropriate

treatment

Nuts

All kernels from shells

Seeds

All types of seeds as such or roughly crushed

Algae

Algae, fresh or preserved by appropriate treatment

Molluscs and crustaceans

All types of molluscs, crustaceans, shellfish, fresh or

preserved by appropriate treatment, and their processing

derivatives

Insects

All types of insects and their stages of development

Bakery products

All bread, cakes, biscuits and pasta products