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The Feed (Sampling and Analysis and Specified Undesirable Substances) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010

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Regulation 24(3)(a)

SCHEDULE 2Entries to be substituted in Chapter A of Schedule 5 to the Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

This schedule has no associated Explanatory Memorandum

Column 1

Undesirable substances

Column 2

Products intended for animal feed

Column 3

Maximum content in mg/kg of feeding stuffs referred to a moisture content of 12%

ArsenicFeed materials2
except:
– meal made from grass, from dried lucerne or from dried clover, and dried sugar beet pulp and dried molasses sugar beet pulp4
– palm kernel expeller4
– phosphates and calcareous marine algae10
– calcium carbonate15
– magnesium oxide20
– feeding stuffs obtained from the processing of fish or other marine animals25
– seaweed meal and feed materials derived from seaweed40
Iron particles used as tracer50
Additives belonging to the functional group of compounds of trace elements30
except:
– copper sulphate pentahydrate and copper carbonate50
– zinc oxide, manganese oxide and copper oxide100
Complete feeding stuffs2
except:
– complete feeding stuffs for fish and for fur-producing animals10
Complementary feeding stuffs4
except:
– mineral feeding stuffs12
Notes in respect of all entries in column 3:
The maximum contents refer to total arsenic.
The maximum contents refer to an analytical determination of arsenic, whereby extraction is performed in nitric acid (5% w/w) for 30 minutes at boiling point. Equivalent extraction procedures can be applied where it can be demonstrated that the procedure used has an equal extraction efficiency.

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