The security and quality of animal feed are the main priorities of FCA certified companies. A thorough monitoring is required as well as a control of the purchases.

At the level of the national legislation (France and Belgium), several texts dealing with multiple issues were published last month.

Covered transport of products has thus far been a general requirement within the FCA Standard. However, for certain products (humid, hot, ...), covered transport may adversely influence their microbiological quality.

One of the pillars of the Feed Chain Alliance Standard is to implement a mandatory and well- founded monitoring plan.

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In practice it is not always easy to determine whether or not a particular transport section should be part of the FCA certification inherent to a company.

On Monday January 25th, a new evaluation took place with respect to the classification of countries into risk categories (high / medium /low), a classification put in place in the protocol for additional monitoring of Aflatoxin B1 in maize (FCA document ‘BT-16: Temporary monitoring’).

The certificate of the company mentioned below has been suspended on 27/01/2016.

With this newsletter we would like to provide you with an overview of the mandatory communication which is to be sent to OVOCOM upon purchase of animal feed:

An effective incident and crisis management is essential to ensure the food safety and credibility of the entire ‘feed’ chain.

As you probably already know, all FCA certified participants, as well as approved certification bodies and registered consultants have access to a weekly overview of the sector-based legislation published during the past week.

One of the main texts published during the month of December 2015 is without doubt a European regulation regarding the establishment of a new functional group of additives for use in animal feed.

FAMI-QS, Scheme holder of the Fami-QS Standard, has informed us of the existence of an invalid certificate for this Standard.

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The systematic monitoring of maize batches originating from risk countries remains a necessity.

Just like last year, the contribution for the FCA Standard, CC-03 and OVC-04 are not indexed.

As of 1 January 2016 new requirements will take effect for all suppliers delivering animal feed to Dutch dairy farmers. All suppliers shall be published on a “white list”.

Six documents belonging to the Feed Chain Alliance Standard (ex. GMP animal feed) (4 from the AC - series and 2 from the BT - series) have been amended.

As very few texts were published during the month of November, we shall review some details of Regulation (EU) No. 2015/1905, published in October and relating to the revision of the European dioxin monitoring.

One month has passed since the first assessment of the classification of countries into risk categories (high / medium /low), a classification put in place in the protocol for additional monitoring of Aflatoxin B1 in maize (FCA document ‘BT-16: Temporary monitoring’).