Regulation (EC) No 767/2009 of the European Parliament and of the CouncilShow full title

ANNEX IV Permitted tolerances for the compositional labelling of feed materials or compound feed as referred to in Article 11(5)

1. The tolerances laid down in this Annex include technical and analytical deviations. Once analytical tolerances covering measurement uncertainties and procedural variations are fixed at Community level, the values set out in paragraph 2 should be adapted accordingly in order to cover only the technical tolerances.

2. Where the composition of a feed material or compound feed is found to depart from the labelled composition in a manner such as to reduce its value, the following tolerances are permitted:

(a)

for crude protein, sugars, starch and inulin:

• 3 units for declared contents of 30 % or more,

• 10 % of the declared content for declared contents of less than 30 % but not less than 10 %,

• 1 unit for declared contents of less than 10 %;

(b)

for crude fibre, crude oil and fats:

• 2,2 units for declared contents of 15 % or more,

• 15 % of the declared content for declared contents of less than 15 % but not less than 5 %,

• 0,8 units for declared contents of less than 5 %;

(c)

for moisture, crude ash, ash insoluble in hydrochloric acid and chlorides expressed as NaCl, total phosphorus, sodium, calcium carbonate, calcium, magnesium, acid index and matter insoluble in light petroleum:

• 1,5 units for declared contents (values) of 15 % (15) or more, as appropriate,

• 10 % of the declared content (value) for declared contents (values) of less than 15 % (15), but not less than 2 % (2), as appropriate,

• 0,2 units for declared contents (values) of less than 2 % (2), as appropriate;

(d)

for the energy value 5 % and for the protein value 10 %;

(e)

for feed additives(1);

• 10 % if the declared content is 1 000 units or more,

• 100 units for declared contents of less than 1 000 units but not less than 500 units,

• 20 % of the declared content of less than 500 units but not less than 1 unit,

• 0,2 units for declared contents of less than 1 unit but not less than 0,5 units,

• 40 % of the declared content of less than 0,5 units.

These tolerances shall apply also to the maximum levels of feed additives in compound feed.

3. As long as the fixed maximum level for each feed additive is not exceeded, the variation from the declared content may be up to three times the relevant tolerance laid down in paragraph 2.

4. For feed additives belonging to the group of micro-organisms the acceptable upper limit shall correspond to the fixed maximum level.

(1)

1 unit in this paragraph means 1 mg, 1 000 IU, 1 × 10⁹ CFU or 100 enzyme activity units of the respective feed additive.