REGULATION (EC) No 183/2005 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 12 January 2005 laying down requirements for feed hygiene is the EU's foundational feed-hygiene regulation. It applies to feed business operators at all stages from primary production up to and including the placing of feed on the market.
Key obligations include conditions and arrangements ensuring traceability of feed and conditions and arrangements for registration and approval of establishments. The regulation embeds a HACCP-based preventive approach to feed hygiene throughout the chain.
Pet-food relevance: EU pet-food manufacturers operate as feed business operators under this regulation — traceability, establishment registration/approval, and hygiene prerequisites are the baseline that sits underneath the specific compositional/labeling rules (e.g., the EU feed-hygiene framework precedes the additive and labelling rules). US counterpart: 21 CFR Part 507 (see mfg_food_safety_us_cfr_507).
Source: pdf-raw/mfg-food-safety/eu_183_2005.html (EUR-Lex, landed 2026-08-09).
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