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

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Regulation 6

SCHEDULE 1Form of Certificate of Analysis

Part 2

Notes for completion of certificate.

1.

Insert date.

2.

Insert name of person submitting the sample for analysis and mode of transport.

3.

Insert the name or description applied to the material.

4.

Insert the distinguishing mark on the sample and the date of sampling shown.

5.

Indicate the particulars marked, labelled or otherwise documented.

6.

Insert the relevant results, the conclusions drawn from those results and any other relevant observations. Expand this section as necessary.

7.In the case of analysis of substances for which no method is prescribed by relevant EU legislation, after the results indicate the method used.

Regulation 24(3)(a)

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

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.

Regulation 23

SCHEDULE 3Revocations

  • The Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999(1)

  • The Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 (2)

  • The Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002(3)

  • Regulations 2 to 7 of the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) and Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003(4)

  • The Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004(5)

  • Regulation 23 of the Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005(6)

  • Regulation 3 of the Feeding Stuffs and the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (7)

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