Regulation (EU) 2018/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 on organic production and labelling of organic products and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 (c. 848)

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CHAPTER II U.K. OBJECTIVES AND PRINCIPLES OF ORGANIC PRODUCTION

Article 8 U.K. Specific principles applicable to the processing of organic feed

The production of processed organic feed shall be based, in particular, on the following specific principles:

(a)

the production of organic feed from organic feed materials;

(b)

the restriction of the use of feed additives and processing aids, so that they are used to a minimum extent and only in cases of essential technological or zootechnical needs or for particular nutritional purposes;

(c)

the exclusion of substances and processing methods that might be misleading as regards the true nature of the product;

(d)

the processing of organic feed with care, preferably through the use of biological, mechanical and physical methods.