The Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations 1991

Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 1475

AGRICULTURE

The Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations 1991

Made

26th June 1991

Laid before Parliament

9th July 1991

Coming into force

30th July 1991

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 66(1), 68(1), (1A) and (3), 69(1), (3), (6) and (7), 70(1), 73(3), 74(1), 74A and 84 of the Agriculture Act 1970(1) and now vested in them(2) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consultation in accordance with section 84(1) of the said Act with such persons or organisations as appear to them to represent the interests concerned, and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State, being Ministers designated(3) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(4) in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Economic Community, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by the said section 2(2), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:—

Title and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations 1991, and shall come into force on 30th July 1991.

Further amendment of the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1988

2.  The Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1988(5) are hereby further amended in accordance with regulation 3.

3.—(1) In Schedule 4, for paragraph 8 there shall be substituted the following paragraph:

“8.   No material shall contain any added aromatic or appetising substance other than one named or described in column 2 of Part VII, or any such substance specified which, taking account of any such substance which is naturally present, exceeds the maximum content (if any) specified in relation thereto in column 5 of that Part. No material shall contain any substance specified in column 2 of Part VII unless the material is for an animal listed opposite the substance in question in column 4 of that Part.”

(2) In Part II of the table in Schedule 4 (“PERMITTED COLOURANTS”), in the provision relating to astaxanthin for trout and salmon in column 1 (“EEC No”) there shall be inserted “E161j”.

(3) In Part IV of the table in Schedule 4 (“PERMITTED BINDERS, ANTI-CAKING AGENTS AND COAGULANTS”), in CHAPTER B before the provisions relating to bentonite and montmorillonite there shall be inserted the following provisions:

“E553

Sepiolite Hydrated magnesium silicate of sedimentary origin, containing at least 60% sepiolite and maximum 30% montmorillonite. Asbestos free

All species of animals

20,000

All feeding stuffs”

(4) In Schedule 4 (“AROMATIC AND APPETISING SUBSTANCES”), for Part VII of the table there shall be substituted the contents of Part I of the Schedule to these Regulations.

(5) In Schedule 7—

(a) after item 1.4 (“Lower fungi”) there shall be inserted the contents of Part II of the Schedule to these Regulations;

(b) after the provisions relating to the product itemised at 3.1.3 in column 2 there shall be inserted the following provisions:

“3.1.4

Concentrated liquid sodium DL-methionine technically pure

(CH3S(CH2)2—CH(NH2)—COO)Na

—

DL-methionine minimum 40.0% Sodium: minimum 6.2%

All animal species

Declarations to be made on the label or packaging of the product:—the name “concentrated liquid sodium DL-methionine”——methionine content —moisture content.”

(c) after the provisions relating to the product itemised at 3.2.5 in column 2 there shall be inserted the following provisions:

“3.2.6

L-lysine phospate and its by-products produced by fermentation with Brevibacterium lactofermentum

[NH2—(CH2)4—CH(NH2)—COOH]H3PO4

Sucrose ammonia and fish solubles

L-lysine minimum 35% Phosphorus: minimum 4.3%

Poultry, pigs

Declaration to be made on the label or packaging of the product:— the name “L-lysine phosphate and its by products from fermentation”—L-lysine and moisture content”

(d) for the provisions relating to item 4 (“Hydroxy-analogues of amino acids”) there shall be substituted the contents of Part III of the Schedule to these Regulations.

In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 20th June 1991.

L.S.

John Selwyn Gummer

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Strathclyde

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

25th June 1991

Nicholas Bennett

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office

26th June 1991

Tegulations 3(4), 3(5)(a) and (d)

THE SCHEDULE

PART I

“PART VII AROMATIC AND APPETISING SUBSTANCES

(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)
EEC Number	Name or description	Chemical formula	Kind of animal	Maximum content (mg/kg in complete feeding stuff)
	1. All natural products and corresponding synthetic products	—	All animals	No limit
E954 (i)	2. Artificial substances: saccharin	C7H3NO3S	Piglets up to the age of four months)	150
E954 (ii)	Calcium saccharin	C7H3NCa03S	Piglets up to the age of four months)	150
E954 (iii)	Sodium saccharin	C7H4NNaO3S	Piglets up to the age of four months)	150”

PART II

“1.4.1. Products from production of antibiotics by fermentation

1.4.1.1. Mycelium, wet by-product from the production of penicillin, ensiled by means of lactobacillus brevis, plantarum, sake, collenoid and streptococcus lactis to inactivate the penicillin and heat treated

Nitrogenous compound Penicillium chrysogenum ATCC 48271

Different sources of carbohydrates and their hydrolysates

Nitrogen expressed as crude protein: minimum 7%

Ruminants pigs

Declaration to be made on the label or packaging of the product: the name: “Mycelium silage from the production of penicillin” Nitrogen expressed as crude protein crude ash moisture animal species or category Declaration to be made on the label or packaging of the compound fedingstuff: the name: “Mycelium silage from the production of penicillin””

PART III

“4. Hydroxy-analogues of amino acids
4.1 Hydroxy-analogue of methionine and its salts
	4.1.1. DL-2-hydroxy-4-methylmercapto-butyric acid	CH3-S-(CH2)2-CH(OH)-COOH		Total acids: minimum 85% Monomer acid: minimum 65%	All animal species except ruminants	Declaration to be made on the label or packaging of the product: name (column 2) monomer and total acids content in the case of 4.1.1, monomer content in the case of 4.1.2 moisture content animal species or categories
		4.1.2. Calcium salt of DL-2-hydroxy-4-methylmercapto-butyric acid	(CH3-S-(CH2)2-CH(OH)-COO)2Ca	Monomer acid: minimum 83% Calcium: minimum 12%	All animal species except ruminants	Declarations to be made on the label or packaging of compound feedingstuffs: name (column 2) monomer and total acids content in the case of 4.1.1, monomer content in the case of 4.1.2 the amount of the product contained in the feedingstuff”

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1988. Regulation 3 amends Schedules 4 and 7 to the principal Regulations, which relate respectively to permitted additives in feeding stuffs and to the control of certain protein sources.

The Regulations implement the following four directives of the European Economic Community save insofar as they relate to medicinal products:—

1.  Commission Directive 89/23/EEC (OJ No. L11, 14.1.89, p.34) amending Annex 1 to Directive 70/524/EEC (OJ No. L270, 14.12.70, p.1) concerning additives in feeding stuffs (regulation 3(1) and (4) and Part I of the Schedule);

2.  Commission Directive 89/520/EEC (OJ No. L270, 19.9.89, p.13) amending the Annex to Directive 82/471/EEC (OJ No. L213, 21.7.82, p.8) concerning certain products used in animal nutrition (regulation 3(5)(b), (d) and Part III of the Schedule);

3.  Commission Directive 90/110/EEC (OJ No. L67, 15.3.90, p.44; see also corrigenda in OJ No. L83, 30.3.90, p.128 and OJ No. L96, 12.4.90, p.92) amending Annex 1 to Directive 70/524/EEC concerning additives in feeding stuffs (regulation 3(2) and (3));

4.  Commission Directive 90/439/EEC (OJ No. L227, 21.8.90, p.33) amending the Annex to Directive 82/471/EEC concerning certain products used in animal nutrition (regulation 3(5)(a) and (c) and Part II of the Schedule).

(1)

1970 c. 40; section 74A was inserted by the European Communities Act 1972 (C.68), Schedule 4, paragraph 6, and the Act was amended by the Agriculture Act 1970 Amendment Regulations 1982 (S.I. 1982/980).

(2)

In the case of the Secretary of State for Wales by virtue of S.I. 1978/272.

(3)

S.I. 1972/1811.

(4)

1972 c. 68; section 2 is subject to Schedule 2 to the Act and is to be read, as regards England and Wales, with section 40 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48), and as regards Scotland, with sections 289F and 289G of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21), which were inserted by section 54 of the said Act of 1982.

(5)

S.I. 1988/396, amended by S.I. 1989/2014.