OVOCOM has taken significant steps, together with 3 other scheme holders, towards an interchangeability agreement with the French CSA/GTP standard. As a result, the world is one step closer to an entirely certified chain for the purchasing of French cereals, oilseeds and protein crops.

Control of purchases remains one of the important means to ensure the marketing of feed that is safe and of good quality.

For the 2017 harvest, at least 80% of direct purchases of plant primary products from Belgian farmers by animal feed producers must be executed by farmers who have a Vegaplan Standard certification (see conditions listed in FCA document BT-02).

The certificate of the company mentioned below has been withdrawn on 04/07/2017.

Company name: Pigache Didier sa

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 :

By means of this newsletter, we would like to inform you about how module I-01 works as well as about some modifications. Reminder, module I-01 is an additional module which is applied by FCA certified companies who want to deliver feed directly to Dutch dairy farmers (see website for more information).

Several points of the certification rules of the FCA Standard have been changed.

At the end of last year, we have reported a possible danger for the feed safety. It was about the so-called “palm oil mill effluents (POME)” labeled as palm acid oils.

Par ce bulletin d’informations, nous souhaiterions attirer votre attention sur d’éventuels achats de son de riz (rice bran) produit au Royaume-Uni.

By means of this newsletter, we would like to give you an overview of the changes which have been made to FCA document ‘BT-02 - Purchase: general provisions’.

This thematic training course is only available in french and dutch

Several texts which cover very different topics have been published during the month of May. Our ‘selection of the month’ concerns an amino acid, a new definition of fishmeal and fish oil and, finally, MRLs for ‘medicines in animal feed’.

As from Sunday June 4, 2017, Flemish television channel PlattelandsTv will broadcast a feed special on OVOCOM.

Pour ce mois d’avril, nous nous penchons sur le tout nouveau règlement relatif aux contrôles officiels (Règlement (UE) 2017/625). Que faut-il en attendre ?

This training course is only available in French and Dutch

We would like to dedicate this newsletter to the transport under the FCA Standard. The points listed below have been reported to us by various stakeholders within the chain and therefore deserve our attention.

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GMP+ International and EFISC have informed OVOCOM of a possible zinc oxide (origin: Spain) and of products derived from zinc oxide contamination with dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs.

GMP+ International and EFISCH have informed OVOCOM of a possible maize (origin: Ukraine) and maize gluten meal (origin : Spain) contamination with dioxins.