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’.

We’re sorry, the thematic training courses are only available in Dutch and French.

We’re sorry, the thematic training courses are only available in Dutch and French.

Next week, we will perform a technical intervention on our servers. That way, we will be able to serve you even better in the future. This intervention will last from Monday August 28th to Friday September 1st 2017. We may be less accessible during that period.

RASFF (rapid alert system for Food and Feed) system has been updated until June 30th 2017. For these first 6 months, 542 ‘hazard/product’ combinations of interest to feed operators have been withheld.

Traditionally, the conclusion of our follow-up of the rapid alert notifications during the past year are presented at our first thematic training course. This year, we had a bit of a delay, but we hold true to this tradition. OVOCOM has posted a brief summary of this information on the RASFF (Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed) webpage.

The publications of July are more “traditional” with regard to those of the month of June. There are 5 GMO authorizations (maize and cotton), 4 authorizations of biocidal substances usable in our sectors (chlorine and peracetic acid) and new MRL’s (Regulation (EC) n° 396/2005) which have been published.

We’re sorry, the thematic training courses are only available in Dutch and French.

The suspension as regards the certificate of the following company has been removed (09/08/2017).

We’re sorry, the thematic training courses are only available in Dutch and French.

We’re sorry, the thematic training courses are only available in Dutch and French.

The certificate of the company mentioned below has been suspended on 26/07/2017.

There have been agreed several changes for the IDTF by the International Committee for Road Transport (GMP+ International, OVOCOM, QS, Qualimat, GTP, AIC, Gafta and AMA). The changes are now implemented in the IDTF. Please find here further information about the changes.

We’re sorry, the thematic training courses are only available in Dutch and French.

The legislative news of the month of June 2017 is full of interesting texts which directly concern our sector. See for yourself: new catalogue of feed materials, withdrawal from the market of certain feed additives, suspension of a well known antioxidant and a circular on the use of insecticides in the storage of plants !

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).