Label matrix — United Kingdom (retained EU Reg (EC) 767/2009, pet-food/feed labelling)

Label matrix — United Kingdom (retained EU Reg (EC) 767/2009)

Pet-food and feed labelling in the United Kingdom is governed by Regulation (EC) No 767/2009 on the placing on the market and use of feed. The UK left the EU; legislation.gov.uk publishes the UK version of this regulation, kept up to date with UK amendments since IP completion day (31 Dec 2020). It is therefore the applicable UK law for pet-food/feed labelling (the EU "original" version remains on EUR-Lex).

Source landed: pdf-raw/tier3-probe/uk_eu_767_art15.html (Article 15; fetched via Tokyo relay 2026-08-17). Method: substring_match — every quoted clause below is a verbatim, whitespace-collapsed substring of the landed source.

Article 15 — General mandatory labelling requirements

A feed material or compound feed shall not be placed on the market unless the following particulars are indicated by labelling:

• (a) the type of feed: ‘feed material’, ‘complete feed’ or ‘complementary feed’, as appropriate; for ‘complete feed’, the designation ‘complete milk replacer feed’ may be used, if appropriate, for ‘complementary feed’, the following designations may be used if appropriate: ‘mineral feed’ or ‘complementary milk replacer feed’, for pets other than cats and dogs, ‘complete feed’ or ‘complementary feed’ may be replaced by ‘compound feed’;
• (b) the name or business name and the address of the feed business operator responsible for the labelling;
• (c) if available, the establishment approval number of the person responsible for the labelling granted in accordance with Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 … or with Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 183/2005;
• (d) the batch or lot reference number;
• (e) the net quantity expressed in units of mass in the case of solid products, and in units of mass or volume in the case of liquid products;
• (f) the list of feed additives preceded by the heading ‘additives’ in accordance with Chapter I of Annex VI or VII, as applicable, and without prejudice to labelling provisions laid down in the legal act authorising the respective feed additive;
• (g) the moisture content in accordance with point 6 of Annex I.

Pet-food relevance

• The ‘complete feed’ / ‘complementary feed’ designation is the core pet-food label claim in the UK: a complete pet food must be nutritionally sufficient alone; a complementary pet food must be fed alongside other foods. (For pets other than cats and dogs, these may be replaced by ‘compound feed’.)
• Mandatory particulars (responsible operator, batch/lot, net quantity, additives list, moisture) apply to all prepacked feedingstuffs including pet food.
• The UK has no separate statutory pet-food nutrient minima — species-specific nutritional adequacy follows FEDIAF guidelines (covered in life_stage_nutrient_matrix EU column). Statutory labelling is the 767/2009 requirement above.

Honest scope note

Only Article 15 general mandatory particulars are quoted verbatim here (verified C1). The regulation's further pet-animal-specific and feed-material-specific provisions (Articles 16–17 in the original EU structure; restructured in the UK revised version) are out of scope of this extraction. Cells not specified are honest gaps, not interpolated. Source: pdf-raw/tier3-probe/uk_eu_767_art15.html (fetched 2026-08-17).