UK feed hygiene — approval, hygiene & HACCP obligations — verbatim extracts from UK feed/pet-food legislation (retained EU Regulation (EC) No 767/2009 on the placing on the market and use of feed, and Regulation (EC) No 183/2005 on feed hygiene, as published on legislation.gov.uk; these apply to Great Britain post-Brexit as retained EU law and govern pet food as 'feedingstuffs'). C1 substring-verified against pdf-raw/uk-2026/*.txt.
Article 1 Subject matter
This Regulation lays down:
(a)
general rules on feed hygiene;
(b)
conditions and arrangements ensuring traceability of feed;
(c)
conditions and arrangements for registration and approval of establishments.
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Article 4 General obligations
[F11. Feed business operators must ensure that all stages of production, processing and distribution under their control are carried out in accordance with relevant hygiene requirements laid down in [F2assimilated] law.]
2. When feeding food-producing animals, farmers shall take measures and adopt procedures to keep the risk of biological, chemical and physical contamination of feed, animals and animal products as low as reasonably achievable.
Textual Amendments
F1 Art. 4(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animal Feed (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/654), regs. 1, 37; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2 Word in Art. 4(1) substituted (27.2.2025) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/82), reg. 1(2), Sch. 11 para. 9(a)
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Article 5 Specific obligations
1. For operations at the level of primary production of feed and the following associated operations:
(a) transport, storage and handling of primary products at the place of production;
(b) transport operations to deliver primary products from the place of production to an establishment;
(c) mixing of feed for the exclusive requirements of their own holdings without using additives or premixtures of additives with the exception of silage additives,
feed business operators shall comply with the provisions in Annex I, where relevant for the operations carried out.
2. For operations other than those referred to in paragraph 1, including mixing of feed for the exclusive requirements of their own holdings when using additives or premixtures of additives with the exception of silage additives, feed business operators shall comply with the provisions in Annex II, where relevant for the operations carried out.
[F13. Feed business operators must:
(a) comply with specific microbiological criteria;
(b) take measures or adopt procedures necessary to meet specific targets.
The criteria and targets referred to in points (a) and (b) may be prescribed by the appropriate authority.]
4. Feed business operators may use the guides provided for in Chapter III to help them comply with their obligations under this Regulation.
5. Farmers shall comply with the provisions set out in Annex III when feeding food-producing animals.
6. Feed business operators and farmers shall only source and use feed from establishments which are registered and/or approved in accordance with this Regulation.
Textual Amendments
F1 Art. 5(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animal Feed (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/654), regs. 1, 38; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
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Article 15 Revocation of registration or approval
The competent authority shall revoke the registration or the approval of an establishment, for one or more of its activities, where:
(a)
the establishment ceases one or more of its activities;
(b)
it is shown that the establishment has not fulfilled the conditions applicable to its activities, for a period of one year;
(c)
it identifies serious deficiencies or has had to stop production at an establishment repeatedly and the feed business operator is still not able to provide adequate guarantees regarding future production.
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Article 16 Amendments to registration or approval of an establishment
Upon request, the competent authority shall amend the registration or approval of an establishment, where it has demonstrated its capacity to develop activities which are additional to those for which it was first registered or approved, or which replace them.
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[F1Article 17 Exemption from on-site visits
1. Competent authorities are exempted from the obligation to carry out on site visits, as provided for in Article 13, of feed businesses which act solely as traders, without holding the products on their premises.
2. Such feed businesses must submit to the competent authority a declaration, in a form decided upon by the competent authority, to the effect that the feeds placed on the market by them comply with the conditions of this Regulation.]
Textual Amendments
F1 Art. 17 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animal Feed (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/654), regs. 1, 45; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
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Article 18 Transitional measures
1. Establishments and intermediaries approved and/or registered in accordance with Directive 95/69/EC may continue their activities, on condition that they submit, by 1 January 2006, a notification to this effect to the relevant competent authority in whose area their facilities are located.
2. Establishments and intermediaries requiring neither registration nor approval in accordance with Directive 95/69/EC, but requiring registration in accordance with this Regulation may continue their activities, on condition that they submit, by 1 January 2006, an application for registration to the relevant competent authority in whose area their facilities are located.
3. By 1 January 2008 the applicant must declare, in a form decided upon by the competent authority, that the conditions laid down in this Regulation are being met.
4. The competent authorities shall take account of the systems already existing for the collection of data and request the notifier or the applicant to provide only additional information which guarantees compliance with the conditions of this Regulation. In particular, the competent authorities may consider as an application under paragraph 2 a notification pursuant to Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 852/2004.
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