Feed safety scheme holders in Europe unite to harmonize temporary mutual recognition between OQUALIM and AIC, GMP+ International, OVOCOM and QS effective as from January 1st 2018.

As of December 15th, 2017 Bart Verhulst is the new Managing Director of OVOCOM vzw / asbl. The baton is handed to him by Katrien D'hooghe, who, after six years at OVOCOM, starts a new challenge at the Belgian Feed Association (BFA).

The certificate of the company mentioned below has been suspended on 5/12/2017.

This month of October 2017 can be considered ‘quiet’ as far as European publications are concerned. However, two memorandums from the General Food Direction in France (Direction Générale de l’alimentation) drew our attention. The first one reports on a current topic: insects and animal feed. The second one, more technical, discusses the use of animal by-products of milk and milk derivatives.

L’année prochaine, OVOCOM vous proposera à nouveau toute une gamme de formations de qualité. Découvrez-les ci-dessous ou consultez notre site web.

Avez-vous une suggestion épatante pour nos formations « alimentation animale » ?  N’hésitez pas à nous le faire savoir via info@ovocom.be ou +32 (0)2 514 01 86. En effet, nous sélectionnons nos sujets sur base des intérêts du secteur.

A reassessment of the risk classification of countries (see FCA-document ‘BT-16: Temporary Monitoring’), based on Aflatoxin results received, has led to the following changes :

Although the acronym "FCA" is fast becoming commonplace, sometimes we still discover a reference to the old name "GMP". So let’s jog your memory.

Document AT-08 has been updated following the publication of Execution regulation (EU) 2017/1914 on 20/10/2017. As a result, the tables at point IV have been revised.

Des modifications ont été apportées au règlement de Certification du Standard FCA. Elles concernent : Dossier auditeur – Ajout du scope ‘MH’ à l’examen de type 1. Dorénavant, les auditeurs qui auront réussi l’examen de type 1 pourront également être qualifiés pour le scope ‘MH’ : Mise sur le marché d’aliments composés produits par un tiers.

Recently, AIC, GMP+ International, OVOCOM, OQUALIM and QS agreed upon a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to reach full mutual recognition among each other.

For many years, the four organizations (AIC, GMP+ International, Ovocom and QS) have already signed agreement about the said collaboration.

The certificate of the company mentioned below has been suspended on 25/10/2017.

Document AT-08 has been updated following the communication of 1 new multiplication factor for the premix Pigfen 40 mg/g.

A reassessment of the risk classification of countries (see FCA-document ‘BT-16: Temporary Monitoring’), based on Aflatoxin results received, has led to the following changes :

This month of September 2017 is not very rich in specific texts: MRL changes for plant protection products or drug substances as well as information on border posts and instructions for export ... and that's about it.

The document ‘OVC-04 : Conditions for the appointment of inspection bodies for verification of inland waterway vessels’ has been developed as a procedure to OVOCOM and the inspection bodies when appointing inspection bodies wishing to be accepted to check if the vessels correspond to the FCA document ’BC-08 : Hygiene Code for inland waterway transport’.

In September, we organize a lot of training courses. That's why we present this follow-up on regulations of August with some delay. But what happened during this holiday season?

Following the publication of the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1396 as regards the BSE status of certain countries such as Poland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Costa Rica, the Status of these countries has been changed (countries with a controlled risk à countries with a negligible risk).

For many years, three OVOCOM members (Apfaca, ARMB and Synagra) are working together towards a targeted monitoring with respect to the presence of mycotoxins in wheat, barley, rye, oats, triticale and spelt. Such monitoring carried out as quickly as possible after harvest (early warning), allows us to estimate the “degree of contamination” of mycotoxins in cereals.

The certificates of the companies mentioned below have been suspended on 1/10/2017.

Since 2013, the additional monitoring of Aflatoxin B1 in maize has been added to the FCA Standard. This monitoring is described in FCA document ‘BT-16: Temporary monitoring’.