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The IDTF database contains the minimal cleaning requirements required for feed transport. It has been created with the aim of feed safety assurance throughout and has recently been reviewed and updated.

More information on the OVOCOM website.

The certificate of the company mentioned below has been revoked on 6/02/2019.

Company name: Transport Frooninckx bvba

Following the recent evaluation of the aflatoxin results received in the past months, the document has been adjusted as follows:

• The risk classification for Slovakia changes from ‘Medium’ to ‘Low’;

It has finally arrived! The complete overview of all relevant feed legislation texts from 2018. More than 200 texts published at European, French and Belgian level, and consolidated into a single document which FCA companies, consultants and certification bodies can get for free!

Comme le veut la tradition, nous commencerons la première formation de l’année par l’analyse des avis RASFF de l’année précédente ; les avis feed mais aussi les avis food pertinents pour notre secteur seront abordés. Cette synthèse est une bonne manière de vous informer afin de garder à jour vos analyses de dangers.

Purchases of feed materials within the FCA Standard will preferably be conducted with and FCA (or equivalent) certified supplier. However, this is not always possible. 

The European Commission regularly evaluates Community legislation. A consultation on Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 (additives and premixes) is currently underway.

Exactly one year ago, four feed safety scheme holders (OVOCOM AIC, GMP+ International and QS) signed a temporal mutual recognition agreement with OQUALIM.

Cette année, un cas de contamination en PCB dans des aliments pour volailles en Allemagne a remis en lumière la problématique des anciennes peintures datant d’avant les années 70 et recouvrant encore l’intérieur de certains silos. 

Following the recent evaluation of the aflatoxin results received in the past months, the document has been adjusted as follows:

As from January 1st 2019, the contribution fees of the following OVOCOM standards will be indexed:

The certificate of the company mentioned below has been suspended on 5/12/2018.

For this monthly follow-up, we have selected one of the latest modifications of Regulation (EC) N° 767/2009 on the labelling of former food intended for animal feed.

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Document BC-05 (‘Road transport of animal feed or 'by-products for reprocessing': Complementary provisions’) has been modified in order to clarify several points concerning guaranteed transporters.

The certificate of the company mentioned below has been suspended on 5/11/2018.

The certificate of A.H.R. bvba has been revoked on 1/11/2018.

Lately, a lot of important additives (eg trace elements) have been the subject of the “follow up on regulations” newsletters. For this issue, we will not address an authorization, but a refusal of authorization, that of riboflavin (80%) produced by Bacillus subtilis KCCM-10445.