1.A feed additive shall be allocated to one or more of the following categories, depending on its functions and properties, in accordance with the procedure set out at Articles 7, 8 and 9:
(a)technological additives: any substance added to feed for a technological purpose;
(b)sensory additives: any substance, the addition of which to feed improves or changes the organoleptic properties of the feed, or the visual characteristics of the food derived from animals;
(c)nutritional additives;
(d)zootechnical additives: any additive used to affect favourably the performance of animals in good health or used to affect favourably the environment;
(e)coccidiostats and histomonostats.
2.Within the categories referred to in paragraph 1, feed additives shall further be allocated within one or more of the functional groups mentioned in Annex I, according to their principal function or functions, in accordance with the procedure specified in Articles 7, 8 and 9.
[F1 3.Where necessary, as a result of technological progress or scientific development, the appropriate authority may prescribe additional feed additive categories and functional groups.]
Textual Amendments
F1Art. 6(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animal Feed (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/654), regs. 1, 13; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)