The Feeding Stuffs (Wales) Regulations 2001

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SCHEDULE 7 E+W PRESCRIBED LIMITS FOR UNDESIRABLE SUBSTANCES

PART I E+W FEEDING STUFFS

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
[F1 Undesirable Substances]	[F1 Products intended for animal feed]	Maximum content in mg/kg of feeding stuffs referred to a moisture content of 12%
Arsenic	Feed materials	2
	except:
	– meal made from grass, from dried lucerne, or from dried clover	4
	– dried suger beet pulp or dried molassed sugar beet pulp	4
	– phosphates and feed materials obtained from the processing of fish or other marine animals	10
	Complete feeding stuffs	2
	except:
	– complete feeding stuffs for fish	4
	Complementary feeding stuffs	4
	except:
	– mineral feeding stuffs	12
Cadmium	Feed materials of vegetable origin	1
	Feed materials of animal origin (with the exception of feeding stuffs for pets)	2
	Phosphates	10
	Complete feeding stuffs for cattle, sheep and goats (with the exception of complete feeding stuffs for calves, lambs and kids)	1
	Other complete feeding stuffs (with the exception of feeding stuffs for pets)	0.5
	Mineral feeding stuffs	5
	Other complementary feeding stuffs for cattle, sheep and goats	0.5
[F2 Dioxin (sum of polychlorinated dibenzo-para-dioxins (PCDDs) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) expressed in World Health Organisation (WHO) toxic equivalents, using the WHO-TEFs (toxic equivalency factors, 1997))	All feed materials of plant origin including vegetable oils and by-products	0.75 ng WHO-PCDD/F-TEQ/kg (1)
	Minerals	1.0 ng WHO-PCDD/F-TEQ/kg (1)
	Animal fat, including milk fat and egg fat	2.0 ng WHO-PCDD/F-TEQ/kg (1)
	Other land animal products including milk and milk products and eggs and egg products	0.75 ng WHO-PCDD/F-TEQ/kg (1)
	Fish oil	6 ng WHO-PCDD/F-TEQ/kg (1)
	Fish, other aquatic animals, their products and by-products with the exception of fish oil (2)	1.25 ng WHO-PCDD/F-TEQ/kg (1)
	Compound feedingstuffs, with the exception of feedingstuffs for fur animals, pet foods and feedingstuffs for fish	0.75 ng WHO-PCDD/F-TEQ/kg (1)
	Feedingstuffs for fish	2.25 ng WHO-PCDD/F-TEQ/kg (1)
	Pet foods
		Notes: (1) Upper-bound concentrations; upper-bound concentrations are calculated assuming that all values of the different congeners less than the limit of determination are equal to the limit of determination. (2) Fresh fish directly delivered and used without intermediate processing for the production of feedingstuffs for fur animals is exempted from the maximum limit. The products, processed animal proteins produced from these fur animals cannot enter the food chain and the feeding thereof is prohibited to farmed animals which are kept, fattened or bred for the production of food.]
Fluorine	Feed materials	150
	except:
	– feed materials of animal origin	500
	– phosphates	2000
	Complete feeding stuffs	150
	except:
	– complete feeding stuffs for cattle, sheep and goats
	— in milk	30
	— other	50
	– complete feeding stuffs for pigs	100
	– complete feeding stuffs for poultry	350
	– complete feeding stuffs for chicks	250
	Mineral mixtures for cattle, sheep and goats	2000
	Other complementary feeding stuffs	125
		(fluorine content per percentage point phosphorus in the feeding stuff)
Lead	Feed materials	10
	except:
	– grass meal, lucerne meal or clover meal	40
	– phosphates	30
	– yeast	5
	Complete feeding stuffs	5
	Complementary feeding stuffs	10
	except:
	– mineral feeding stuffs	30
Mercury	Feed materials	0.1
	except:
	– feed materials produced by the processing of fish or other marine animals	0.5
	– complete feeding stuffs for dogs or cats	0.4
	Complementary feeding stuffs (with the exception of complementary feeding stuffs for dogs and cats)	0.2
Nitrites	Fish meal	60 (expressed as sodium nitrate)
	Complete feeding stuffs except feeding stuffs intended for pets other than birds and aquarium fish	15 (expressed as sodium nitrate)
	Complete feeding stuffs except	0.1
CHAPTER B
AFLATOXIN b1	Feed materials	0.05
	except:
	– groundnut, copra, palm-kernel, cotton seed, babassu, maize and products derived from the processing thereof	0.02
	Complete feeding stuffs for cattle, sheep and goats	0.05
	except:
	– dairy cattle	0.005
	– calves and lambs	0.01
	Complete feeding stuffs for pigs and poultry(except piglets and chicks)	0.02
	Other complete feeding stuffs	0.01
	Complementary feeding stuffs for cattle, sheep and goats (except complementary feeding stuffs for dairy animals, calves and lambs)	0.05
	Complementary feeding stuffs for pigs and poultry (except young animals)	0.03
	Other complementary feeding stuffs	0.005
Castor oil plant Ricinus communis L.	All feeding stuffs	10 (expressed in terms of castor oil plant husks)
Crotalaria spp.	All feeding stuffs	100
Free Gossypol	Feed materials	20
	except:
	– cotton-seed cakes	1200
	Complete feeding stuffs	20
	except:
	– complete feeding stuffs for cattle, sheep and goats	500
	– complete feeding stuffs for poultry (except laying hens) and calves	100
	– complete feeding stuffs for rabbits and pigs (except piglets)	60
Hydrocyanic acid	Feed materials	50
	except:
	– linseed	250
	– linseed cakes	350
	– manioc products and almond cakes	100
	Complete feeding stuffs	50
	except:
	– complete feeding stuffs for chicks	10
Rye Ergot Claviceps purpurea	All feeding stuffs containing underground cereals	1000
CHAPTER C
Apricots — Prunus armenaca L.	} {
Bitter almond — Prunus dulcis (mill.) D.A. Webb var. amara (DC.) Focke ( = Prunus amygdalus Batsch var. amara (DC.) Focke)	} {
Unhusked beech mast —Fagus silvatica (L.) Camelina-Camelina sativa (L.) Cranz	} {
Mowrah, bassia, madhuca — Madhuca longifolia (L.) Macbr. ( = Bassia longifolia (L.) = Illipe malabrorum (Engl.) Madhuca indica Gmelin. ( = Bassia latifolia (Roxb.) = Illipe latifolia (Roscb.) F. Mueller)	} All feeding stuffs {	Seeds and fruits of the plant species listed opposite as well as their processed derivatives may only be present in feeding stuffs in trace amounts not quantitatively determinable
Purghera — Jatropha curcas (L.)	} {
Croton — Croton tiglium (L.)	} {
Indian mustard — Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. and Coss. ssp integrifolia (West.)	} {
Thell	} {
Sareptian mustard — Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. and Coss. ssp. Juncea	} {
Chinese mustard — Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. and Coss. ssp juncea var. lutea	} {
Batalin	} {
Black mustard — Brassica nigra (L.) Koch Ethiopian mustard Brassica carinata A Braun	} All feeding stuffs {	Seed and fruits of the plants species listed opposite as well as their processed derivatives may only be present in feeding stuffs in trace amounts not quantitatively determinable
Theobromine	Complete feeding stuffs	300
	Except:
	– complete feeding stuffs for adult cattle	700
Vinylthiooxazolidone (Vinyloxyzolidine thione)	Complete feeding stuffs for poultry Except:	1000
	– complete feeding stuffs for laying hens	500
Volatile mustard oil	Feed materials	100
	Except:
	– rape-seed cakes	4000 (expressed as allylisothiocyanate)
	Complete feeding stuffs	150 (expressed as allylisothiocyanate)
	Except:
	– complete feeding stuffs for cattle, sheep and goats (except calves, lambs and kids)	1000 (expressed as allyl isothiocyanate)
	– complete feeding stuffs for pigs (except piglets) and poultry	500 (expressed as allyl isothiocyanate)
Weeds seeds and underground and uncrushed fruit containing alkaloids, glucosides or other toxic substances separately or in combination including:	All feeding stuffs	3000
(a) Lolium temulentum L.		1000
(b) Lolium remotum Schrank		1000
(c) Datura stramonium L.		1000
CHAPTER D
Aldrin } singly, or combined Dieldrin } expressed as dieldrin	All feeding stuffs except fats	0.01 0.2
Camphechlor (Toxaphene)	All feeding stuffs	0.1
Chlordane (sum of cis- and trans-insomers and of oxychlordane, expressed as Chlordane)	All feeding stuffs except fats	0.02 0.05
DDT (sum of DDT, TDE and DDE isomers, expressed as DDT)	All feeding stuffs except fats	0.05 0.5
Endosulphan (sum of alpha- and beta-isomers and of endosulphan sulphate, expressed as endosulphan	All feeding stuffs except — maize — oilseeds — complete feeding stuffs for fish	0.1 0.2 0.5 0.005
Endrin (sum of endrin and delta-keto-endrin, expressed as endrin)	All feeding stuffs except fats	0.01 0.05
Heptachlor (sum of heptachlor and of heptachlor — epoxide, expressed as heptachlor	All feeding stuffs except fats 0.01 0.2
Hexachlorobenzene (HCB)	All feeding stuffs except fats	0.01 0.2
Hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH)
– alpha-isomers	All feeding stuffs	0.02
	except fats	0.2
– beta-isomers	feed materials	0.01
	except fats	0.1
	Compound feeding stuffs	0.01
	except compound feeding stuffs for dairy cattle	0.005
– gamma-isomers	All feeding stuffs	0.2
	except fats	2.0

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 7 Pt. 1 substituted (1.8.2003) by The Feeding Stuffs, the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) and the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/1850), regs. 1(1), 11(a)

F2 Words in Sch. 7 Pt. 1 substituted (5.8.2002) by The Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/1797), regs. 1, 8(a), Sch. 2

F3 PART II E+W FEED MATERIALS

Textual Amendments

F3 Sch. 7 Pt. 2 revoked (1.8.2003) by The Feeding Stuffs, the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) and the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/1850), regs. 1(1), 11(b)

F3 CHAPTER A E+W

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F3 CHAPTER B E+W

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