The Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations 1991

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(1) 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