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

Regulation 25(3)(a)

SCHEDULE 2 ENTRIES TO BE SUBSTITUTED IN CHAPTER A OF SCHEDULE 5 TO THE FEEDING STUFFS (SCOTLAND) REGULATIONS 2005

Column 1 Undesirable substances	Column 2 Products intended for animal feed		Column 3 Maximum content in mg/kg (ppm) of feeding stuffs referred to a moisture content of 12%
Arsenic	Feed materials		2
	except:
	–	meal made from grass, from dried lucerne or from dried clover, and dried sugar beet pulp and dried molasses sugar beet pulp	4
	–	palm kernel expeller	4
	–	phosphates and calcareous marine algae	10
	–	calcium carbonate	15
	–	magnesium oxide	20
	–	feeding stuffs obtained from the processing of fish or other marine animals	25
	–	seaweed meal and feed materials derived from seaweed	40
	Iron particles used as tracer		50
	Additives belonging to the functional group of compounds of trace elements		30
	except:
	–	copper sulphate pentahydrate and copper carbonate	50
	–	zinc oxide, manganese oxide and copper oxide	100
	Complete feeding stuffs		2
	except:
	–	complete feeding stuffs for fish and for fur-producing animals	10
	Complementary feeding stuffs		4
	except:
	–	mineral feeding stuffs	12
			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.