Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/1193 of 24 April 2024 concerning the renewal of the authorisation of sodium hydroxide as a feed additive for cats, dogs and ornamental fish and repealing Implementing Regulation (EU) No 161/2013

• CELEX: Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/1193
• Articles: 5

Article 1 Renewal of the authorisation

The authorisation of the substance specified in the Annex, belonging to the additive category ‘technological additives’ and to the functional group ‘acidity regulators’, is renewed subject to the conditions laid down in that Annex.

Article 2 Repeal of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 161/2013

Implementing Regulation (EU) No 161/2013 is repealed.

Article 3 Transitional measures

1.   The substance specified in the Annex and premixtures containing that substance, which are produced and labelled before 15 November 2024 in accordance with the rules applicable before 15 May 2024 may continue to be placed on the market and used until the existing stocks are exhausted.

2.   Compound feed and feed materials containing the substance specified in the Annex, which are produced and labelled before 15 May 2026 in accordance with the rules applicable before 15 May 2024 may continue to be placed on the market and used until the existing stocks are exhausted.

Article 4 Entry into force

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Schedules & Appendices

ANNEX

ANNEX

Identification number of the feed additive

Additive

Composition, chemical formula, description, analytical method

Species or category of animal

Maximum age

Minimum content

Maximum content

Other provisions

End of period of authorisation

mg/kg of complete feedingstuff with a moisture content of 12 %

Category: technological additives. Functional group: acidity regulators

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Sodium hydroxide

Additive composition

Sodium hydroxide 50 % w/w

(water solution)

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Characterisation of the active substance

Sodium hydroxide ≥ 98,0 % total alkali (calculated as NaOH)

NaOH CAS No.: 1310-73-2

Produced by chemical synthesis

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Analytical method

( 1 )

Determination of sodium hydroxide in feed additive: Titrimetry – FAO JECFA Combined Compendium for Food Additive Specifications, Monograph No 1 (2006) ‘sodium hydroxide’.

Cats,

dogs and ornamental fish

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1.

Indicate in the directions for use of the additive and premixtures:

‘The resulting total sodium concentration in feed shall not compromise the overall electrolyte balance’.

2.

For users of the additive and premixtures, feed business operators shall establish operational procedures and organisational measures to address potential risks resulting from their use. Where those risks cannot be eliminated by such procedures and measures, the additive and premixtures shall be used with personal skin, eye and breathing protective equipment.

15 May 2034

( 1 )   Details of the analytical methods are available at the following address of the Reference Laboratory: https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/eurl-fa-eurl-feed-additives/eurl-fa-authorisation/eurl-fa-evaluation-reports_en .