The Feed Chain Alliance Standard has been enriched with an additional document: BT-18 - Direct shipping from farms.

Due to necessary maintenance on our International Database Transport (for) Feed (IDTF) website, this Sunday, 14th of April the website is not available between 00:30 and 01:00 AM CEST.

Il n’est pas toujours aisé de se préparer aux dangers potentiellement présents dans les aliments pour animaux. Voilà pourquoi nous vous proposons une formation reprenant l’analyse des avis RASFF 2018 sur les dangers dans le feed.

On 28 March 2019, OVOCOM has accepted CertiOne for the FCA Standard.

Il n’est pas toujours aisé de se préparer aux dangers potentiellement présents dans les aliments pour animaux. Voilà pourquoi nous vous proposons une formation reprenant l’analyse des avis RASFF 2018 sur les dangers dans le feed.

On March 30th, 2019, the United Kingdom is likely to leave the European Union. Companies possibly affected by this event should anticipate as much as possible on the consequences.

GMP + International has informed OVOCOM about a possible zearalenone contamination of sugar beet pulp and pellets (origin: Germany). ZEA is a mycotoxin that has a negative influence on the reproduction of animals (eg fertility).

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

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The certificate of the company mentioned below has been revoked on 6/02/2019.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