{"topic_id":"UK_FEED_LABELING","category":"uk-2026","context":"---\ntopic_id: UK_FEED_LABELING\ncategory: uk-2026\ntitle: \"UK/EU feed law — Labelling of Feed & Pet Food (Reg (EC) No 767/2009, retained EU law, Arts 15 & 19)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"Regulation (EC) No 767/2009 on the placing on the market and use of feed, consolidated text, eur-lex (CELEX 32009R0767), retrieved 2026-07-29 via local chromium --dump-dom\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/uk-2026/uk_feeds_labelling_reg_767_2009.txt\nsource_type: eu_regulation_text\ndate_parsed: 2026-07-29\ntokens_estimated: 200\nverification: C1_substring_match\nclaims: 2\nsource_document: \"Regulation (EC) No 767/2009 (feed labelling/marketing); retained in UK as assimilated law\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"Regulation (EC) No 767/2009\"\n  title: \"UK/EU feed law — Labelling of Feed & Pet Food (Reg (EC) No 767/2009, Arts 15 & 19)\"\n  url: \"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32009R0767\"\n  retrieved: \"2026-07-29\"\n  ref: \"eur-lex CELEX 32009R0767 (local chromium --dump-dom)\"\n  doc_type: \"official regulation (first-hand English text; retained EU law in GB)\"\n  needs_review: false\n---\n\n# UK/EU feed law — Labelling of Feed & Pet Food (Reg (EC) No 767/2009, Arts 15 & 19)\n\nSource: Regulation (EC) No 767/2009 on the placing on the market and use of feed, consolidated English text from eur-lex (CELEX 32009R0767), retrieved 2026-07-29 via local chromium. In the UK this regulation is retained EU law (assimilated law) and applies to Great Britain with UK adaptations. This is the core EU/UK feed-labelling regulation.\n\nThis P2 topic covers the **labelling** layer: pet food (feed for non-food-producing animals) is subject to the general feed law, and pet-food labels must carry a free telephone number for additive/feed-material information.\n\n## Labelling framework\n\n### Claims (verified C1 substrings of source_file)\n- `Article 15 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 shall apply, mutatis mutandis , to feed for non-food producing animals.`   (EN: The general food-law provisions (Reg 178/2002, Art 15 — safety, labelling, traceability) apply, with necessary changes, to feed for non-food-producing animals i.e. pet food — Reg 767/2009 Art 15(1).)\n- `On the label of pet food a free telephone number or other appropriate means of communication shall be indicated in order to allow the purchaser to obtain information in addition to the mandatory particulars on:`   (EN: A pet-food label must show a free telephone number (or other means) so the purchaser can obtain additional information on (a) the feed additives and (b) the feed materials (by category) it contains — Reg 767/2009 Art 19, additional mandatory pet-food labelling.)\n","sources":["uk-2026 — UK/EU feed law — Labelling of Feed & Pet Food (Reg (EC) No 767/2009, Arts 15 & 19) (retrieved 2026-07-29)"],"source":{"authority":"uk-2026","title":"UK/EU feed law — Labelling of Feed & Pet Food (Reg (EC) No 767/2009, Arts 15 & 19)","url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32009R0767","retrieved":"2026-07-29","ref":"Regulation (EC) No 767","doc_type":"official PDF","source_document":"Regulation (EC) No 767/2009 (feed labelling/marketing); retained in UK as assimilated law","verification_file":"pdf-raw/uk-2026/uk_feeds_labelling_reg_767_2009.txt"},"source_document":"Regulation (EC) No 767/2009 (feed labelling/marketing); retained in UK as assimilated law","source_file":"pdf-raw/uk-2026/uk_feeds_labelling_reg_767_2009.txt","tokens_estimated":200,"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."}