October 2022

Regulation (EU) 2022/415 recently came into force. This regulation publishes the renewed licences for various organic acids. For businesses supplying products with such ingredients within the animal feed sector, this will have far-reaching consequences.

The main ones are:

  • Mandatory listing of contents on the label of both the name and quantity added
  • Mandatory warning on the label for simultaneous use of different organic acids/salts
  • Restrictions in use to certain animal species

The cited regulation sets out the following transitional measures:

  1. Additives and premixtures containing them produced and labelled before 3 October 2022 in accordance with the rules applicable before 3 April 2022 may continue to be placed on the market and used until existing stocks are exhausted.
  2. Compound feed and feed materials containing feed additives produced and labelled before 3 April 2023 in accordance with the rules applicable before 3 April 2022 may continue to be placed on the market and used until existing stocks are exhausted when intended for food-producing animals.
  3. Compound feed and feed materials containing feed additives produced and labelled before 3 April 2024 in accordance with the rules applicable before 3 April 2022 may continue to be placed on the market and used until existing stocks are exhausted when intended for non-food-producing animals.

Improved transparency to the end user will bring new challenges to suppliers in protecting their intellectual property. How will one protect their precious organic acid blends that have been painstakingly developed only to declare everything on the packaging? And will this mandatory listing of contents apply to premixes only or through to end products?

Certainly a challenge for the future.

Myles van Heerden

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