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 Last update: June 27, 2008

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The regulation covers the following feed additive categories:

Technological additives (e.g. preservatives, antioxidants, emulsifiers, stabilizing agents, acidity regulators, silage additives)
Sensory additives (e.g. flavors, colorants)
Nutritional additives (e.g. vitamins, minerals, amino acids, trace elements)
Zootechnical additives (e.g. digestibility enhancers, gut flora stabilizers)
Coccidiostats and histomonostats

This regulation also completes the ban on antibiotic growth promoters in feed by prohibiting the use of four antibiotic substances as of January 1, 2006. ("Ban on antibiotics enters into effect" - European Commission Press Release - Dec. 22, 2005.)

Article 10 establishes transitional measures for existing products authorized as feed additives under Regulation 70/524/EEC, for urea and derivatives, amino acids and their salts and analogues of amino acids (products listed in the Annex to Directive 82/471/EEC) and for silage additives.  These products needed to be notified to the European Commission and information on these substances has to be sent to EFSA, before they could be entered in the new Community feed additives register.  The notification period ended on November 7, 2004.  Subsequently, the Commission published a list of feed additives authorized under the old legislation for which no notification was received.  These additives have not been entered in the new Community register.

The Community register of feed additives was published for the first time in November 2005 and is updated whenever authorizations are modified. The authorization granted shall be valid for 10 years and shall be renewable. The application for re-evaluation has to be submitted at least one year before the expiry date of the authorization. The actual data for re-evaluation of feed additives previously authorized under 70/524 without a time limit and for bio-proteins authorized under 82/471/EEC are not determined yet. However the application has to be submitted within a maximum of seven years after the entry into force of Regulation 1831/2003, i.e. at the latest before November 2010. For silage additives the deadline for submission is seven years after entry into force of the regulation, in other words by November 2010. If the application for re-evaluation is not received in due time, the product will be withdrawn from the market. 

Links

- Community Register of Feed Additives: Revision 30 (June 2008)
- List of withdrawn feed additives
- EFSA

Reports
 

Proposal for a new EU feed labeling regulation (GAIN Report E48035 - March 2008) - On March 4, 2008, the European Commission presented a proposal for a new framework regulation on the labeling and marketing of feed and pet food. The draft regulation sets out general rules for the labeling of feed and specific labeling requirements for feed materials, compound feed (including pet food) and dietetic feed. If adopted, one single regulation will replace several directives and implement feed marketing rules in a more uniform way.

Community Register of Feed Additives (GAIN Report E35222 - November 2005) - The European Commission published a consolidated register of all feed additives authorized on the European market. The register was published for the first time in November 2005 and will be updated whenever authorizations are modified. The Register does not replace Community legal acts but has only informative purposes.