{"topic_id":"DE_FEED_LFGB_PROHIBITIONS","category":"germany","context":"---\ntopic_id: \"DE_FEED_LFGB_PROHIBITIONS\"\ncategory: \"germany\"\ntitle: \"Germany - National Feed Law (LFGB): feed-trade prohibitions (§§ 17-17a)\"\nlang: en\nsource_document: \"LFGB - Lebensmittel-, Bedarfsgegenstände- und Futtermittelgesetzbuch (Food and Feed Code)\"\nsource: \"Germany LFGB (Food and Feed Code) - national feed law\"\nsource_file: \"pdf-raw/germany-2026/LFGB.pdf (gesetze-im-internet.de)\"\ndate_parsed: \"2026-07-27\"\ntokens_estimated: 686\ncitation:\n  authority: \"Bundesrepublik Deutschland - Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (BMEL)\"\n  title: \"Germany - National Feed Law (LFGB): feed-trade prohibitions (§§ 17-17a)\"\n  url: \"https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/lfgb/\"\n  retrieved: \"2026-07-27\"\n  ref: \"LFGB (Futtermittelgesetzbuch); Germany national transposition of EU feed law\"\n  doc_type: \"national statute (Bundesgesetz)\"\n  needs_review: true\n---\nGermany - National Feed Law (LFGB): feed-trade prohibitions (§§ 17-17a) — bilingual (German original + English translation) extract from the first-hand German statute text (LFGB, from gesetze-im-internet.de; the old standalone Futtermittelgesetz was consolidated into the LFGB). Germany's pet food is 'Futtermittel' under the LFGB: § 17 prohibits manufacturing/treating feed so that, when properly fed, it could impair human health, be unfit for human consumption, or harm animal/environmental health. C1 substring-verified against the verbatim German clauses below (English translation is a working rendering, needs_review).\n\nGermany regulates animal feed ('Futtermittel') through the **LFGB — Lebensmittel-, Bedarfsgegenstände- und Futtermittelgesetzbuch** (Food and Feed Code), the national act that transposes and applies EU feed law (inter alia VO (EG) Nr. 178/2002, VO (EG) Nr. 767/2009, VO (EG) Nr. 183/2005) at national level. The feed-trade chapter ('Verkehr mit Futtermitteln', §§ 17 ff.) sets Germany's core national feed prohibitions — feed must not, when properly fed, impair human health or be unfit for human consumption, nor harm animal health or the environment. Below are verbatim German clauses (C1 substring-verified against the first-hand LFGB text); the English is a working translation (needs_review).\n\n**Title**\n> DE (verbatim): \"Lebensmittel- und Futtermittelgesetzbuch\"\n> EN: \"Food and Feed Code (LFGB)\"\n\n**§ 17 (1) - Core feed prohibition (human-health)**\n> DE (verbatim): \"(1) Es ist verboten, Futtermittel derart herzustellen oder zu behandeln, dass bei ihrer bestimmungsgemäßen und sachgerechten Verfütterung die von der Lebensmittelgewinnung dienenden Tieren für andere gewonnenen Lebensmittel 1. die menschliche Gesundheit beeinträchtigen können, 2. für den Verzehr durch den Menschen ungeeignet sind.\"\n> EN: \"It is prohibited to manufacture or treat feed in such a way that, when fed to animals kept for food production in the prescribed and proper manner, the food obtained from those animals for others could impair human health or be unsuitable for human consumption.\"\n\n**§ 17 (2) - Feed prohibition (animal / environmental health)**\n> DE (verbatim): \"(2) Es ist ferner verboten, 1. Futtermittel a) für andere derart herzustellen oder zu behandeln, dass sie bei bestimmungsgemäßer und sachgerechter Verwendung geeignet sind, die tierische Gesundheit zu schädigen,\"\n> EN: \"Furthermore it is prohibited to manufacture or treat feed for others in such a way that, when used as intended and properly, it is capable of harming animal health,\"\n\n**§ 17a (1) - Assurance duty for large compound-feed operators**\n> DE (verbatim): \"Ein Futtermittelunternehmer mit mindestens einem im Inland zugelassenen oder registrierten Betrieb, der dort in einem Kalenderjahr voraussichtlich mehr als 500 Tonnen Mischfuttermittel für der Lebensmittelgewinnung dienende Tiere herstellt und diese ganz oder teilweise an andere abgibt, hat für den Fall, dass das Futtermittel den futtermittelrechtlichen Anforderungen nicht entspricht\"\n> EN: \"A feed operator with at least one establishment authorised or registered in Germany who there manufactures, in a calendar year, more than 500 tonnes of compound feed for animals kept for food production and supplies it wholly or partly to others, must, in the event that the feed does not meet feed-law requirements,\"\n\n\n","sources":["Germany LFGB — Germany - National Feed Law (LFGB): feed-trade prohibitions (§§ 17-17a) (retrieved 2026-07-27)"],"source":{"authority":"Germany LFGB","title":"Germany - National Feed Law (LFGB): feed-trade prohibitions (§§ 17-17a)","url":"https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/lfgb/","retrieved":"2026-07-27","ref":"","doc_type":"official PDF","source_document":"LFGB - Lebensmittel-, Bedarfsgegenstände- und Futtermittelgesetzbuch (Food and Feed Code)","verification_file":"pdf-raw/germany-2026/LFGB.pdf (gesetze-im-internet.de)"},"source_document":"LFGB - Lebensmittel-, Bedarfsgegenstände- und Futtermittelgesetzbuch (Food and Feed Code)","source_file":"pdf-raw/germany-2026/LFGB.pdf (gesetze-im-internet.de)","tokens_estimated":686,"generated_at":null,"tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}