Sistema de Información sobre Alimentos y Recursos Fertilizantes para la Acuicultura
 

European Union: Feed and Feed Ingredient Standards

Undesirable Substances in Animal Feed

Undesirable substances

Products intended for animal feed

Maximum content in mg/kg (ppm) relative to a feeding stuff with a moisture content of 12 %

1 Arsenic

Feed materials with the exception of :

2

--meal made form grass, from dried lucerne and from dried clover, and dried sugar beet pulp and dried molasses sugar beet pulp

4

--phosphates and feedingstuffs obtained from the processing of fish or other marine animals

10

Complete feedingstuffs with the exception of:

2

--complete feedingstuffs for fish

4

Complementary feedingstuffs with the exception of:

4

--mineral feedingstuffs

12

2 Lead

Feed materials with the exception of:

10

--green fodder

40

--phosphates

30

--yeasts

5

Complete feedingstuffs

5

Complementary feedingstuffs with the exception of:

10

--mineral feedingstuffs

30

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Additives in Feedingstuffs

EC No

Additive

Chemical formula, description

Species or category of animal

Maximum content

End of period of authorisation

E 161g

Citranaxanthin

C40H52O2

Poultry other than laying hens

25

Without a time limit

 

 

 

Laying hens

8

Without a time limit

 

 

 

Salmon, trout

25

Without a time limit

 

 

 

Dogs, cats and ornamental

fish

-

Without a time limit

E 161j

Astaxanthin

C40H52O4

Salmon, trout

100

Without a time limit

 

 

 

Ornamental fish

-

Without a time limit

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