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[Sophie.H]

Hi,

 

BRC 4.12.2 - Food for animal feed

 

The company I work for currently give any waste bread products to a farmer free of charge.

 

I have been looking for any relevant legislation but all my search seems to bring up is legislation regarding animal by-products.

 

I don't want to just assume this is ok because I can't find anything, does anybody have any useful links?

 

P.S I'm in the UK I can't work out how to change my location from Earth to the UK!

 

Thanks in advance!

[mics0618]

http://www.fda.gov/A...s/ucm050223.htm

[RG3]

Hi Sophie,

  

    I would recommend you get a letter from that farmer with its companies letterhead stating how the waste bread product is treated and its intended use, "i.e. not for human consumption"

 

Caz X posted this in another post

 

Well you need to be registered with DEFRA, as does the person who is taking away your waste

 

The legislative requirement is Animal by-Products (Enforcement) (England) Regulations 2011

 

can be found here

http://www.defra.gov...se-control/abp/

[Mike Green]

Hi,

 

BRC 4.12.2 - Food for animal feed

 

The company I work for currently give any waste bread products to a farmer free of charge.

 

I have been looking for any relevant legislation but all my search seems to bring up is legislation regarding animal by-products.

 

I don't want to just assume this is ok because I can't find anything, does anybody have any useful links?

 

P.S I'm in the UK I can't work out how to change my location from Earth to the UK!

 

Thanks in advance!

Hi Sophie

 

 I'm not an expert in this.... but I believe that (technically at least) any supermarket or food producer(or any other food business) that is supplying 'food for feed'  is (under EU Law) a Feed Business Operator and therefore has to complywith the Feed Hygiene regulations (EU 183/2005) -there is more info on that here

 

(added later- - more detailed info here http://www.gov.uk/su...arm-animal-feed maybe relating mainly to animal feed processors)

 

and from Hampshire Trading Standards

 

 

Do you supply excess and waste bread for animal feed?

If so do you realise that you are an animal feed business and need to comply with hygiene and labelling requirements?

So, what do you need to do?

1. Register as a feed business with Trading Standards.

2. Ensure that you comply with feed hygiene requirements.

3. Provide required information to the person who takes the bread.

 

Kind Regards

 

Mike

Edited by Mike Green, 10 October 2014 - 07:53 PM.