Control of ash insoluble in hydrochloric acid in compound feeding stuffs
16.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person shall not sell, or have in possession with a view to sale—
(a)any compound feeding stuff composed mainly of rice by-products in which the level of ash insoluble in hydrochloric acid exceeds 3.3% of its dry matter; or
(b)subject to paragraph (2), any other compound feeding stuff in which the level of ash insoluble in hydrochloric acid exceeds 2.2% of its dry matter.
(2) Paragraph (1)(b) shall not apply to the sale of any compound feeding stuff which—
(a)contains permitted mineral binders named or described in Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2439/1999 on the conditions for authorisation of additives belonging to the group “binders, anti-caking agents and coagulants” in feeding stuffs(1);
(b)is a mineral feeding stuff;
(c)contains more than 50% of sugar beet chips or sugar beet pulp; or
(d)is intended for farmed fish and has a fish meal content of more than 15%,
if the level of ash insoluble in hydrochloric acid is declared in the statutory statement as a percentage of the feeding stuff as such.
O.J. No. L297, 18.11.1999, p. 8. Amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 739/2000 (O.J. No. L87, 8.4.2000, p. 14)