The Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations 1989

• Citation: S.I. 1989/2014
• Sections: 18

Section 1 Title and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations 1989, and shall come into force on 1st December 1989.

Section 2 Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1988

The Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1988 are hereby amended as prescribed in regulations 3 and 4.

Section 3 Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1988

(1) In regulation 6, after paragraph (3), there shall be inserted the following paragraph:

(4) In this regulation “a prescribed description” means a description prescribed by regulation 4.

(2) In regulation 9(1) the words “of a prescribed description” shall be deleted.

(3) In regulation 15(1) and (3) the words from “and it shall be proof of an offence” to the end of each paragraph shall be deleted.

(4) In regulation 16(1), after the words “for use as a feeding stuff” there shall be inserted the words “or use as a feeding stuff”.

(5) Regulations 1(2) and 17 shall be deleted.

Section 4 Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1988

(1) In Schedule 1, for paragraph 15 there shall be substituted the following paragraph:

(15) In the particulars required or permitted to be contained in the statutory statement by paragraphs 8 to 13 above–

(a) unless the paragraph in question specifies some other method of expression, the amounts shown shall be expressed in each case as a definite percentage by weight of the feeding stuff as such, and not as a range of percentages, and

(b) phosphorus shall be expressed as “phosphorus P

(2) In Part II of Schedule 4 “PERMITTED COLOURANTS”), in the provision relating to canthaxanthin for trout and salmon in column 5 (“maximum content”), for the expression “100: alone or together with astaxanthin” there shall be substituted the figure “80”.

(3) In Part IV of Schedule 4 (“PERMITTED BINDERS, ANTI-CAKING AGENTS AND COAGULANTS”), in CHAPTER B–

(a) in the provisions relating to bentonite and montmorillonite, to the list of antibiotic growth promoters and coccidiostats permitted by the conditions in column 5 to be mixed with feeding stuffs and ingredients in the presence of these additives there shall be added nicarbazine and robenidine, and

(b) after the provisions relating to calcium sulphate dihydrate there shall be inserted the following provisions:

(4) In Part V of Schedule 4 (“VITAMINS, PRO-VITAMINS AND SUBSTANCES HAVING A SIMILAR EFFECT”), at the head of CHAPTER A there shal be inserted the following provisions:

(5) Part VI of Schedule 4 (“TRACE ELEMENTS”) shall be deleted and there shall be substituted therefor the contents of Part I of the Schedule to these Regulations.

(6) Item 3 of Schedule 7 (“Amino acids and their salts”) shall be deleted and there shall be substituted therefor the contents of Part II of the Schedule to these Regulations.

Section 3

Amino acids and their salts

(3.1) Methionine

Section 3.1.1

DL-Methionine, technically pure

Section 3.1.2

Dihydrated calcium salt of N-hydroxy-methyl-DL-methionine, technically pure

Section 3.1.3

Methionine-zinc, technically pure

Section 3.2

Lysine

Section 3.2.1

L-Lysine, technically pure

Section 3.2.2

Concentrated liquid L-lysine (base)

Section 3.2.3

L-Lysine-monohydrochloride, technically pure

Section 3.2.4

Concentrated liquid L-lysine-monohydro-chloride

Section 3.2.5

L-Lysine-sulphate produced by fermentation with Coryne-bacterium glutamicum

Section 3.3.1

L-Threonine, technically pure

Section 3.4

Tryptoplan

Section 3.4.1

L-Tryptophan, technically pure

Section 3.4.2

DL-Tryptophan, technically pure