Livestock feed controls review: consultation

This consultation focuses on the risk of spreading Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies in livestock feed. The Scottish Government wish to ensure that these controls continue to be effective, proportionate, and based on the latest scientific evidence.


Footnotes

1 Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (legislation.gov.uk)

2 National feed audit inspection - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

3 Throughout this consultation, the terms “pig” and “porcine” are used interchangeably to refer to kept animals of the suidae family including domestic pigs, wild boar, micropigs, and pet pigs.

4 Poultry refers to kept galliformes and anseriformes including turkeys, quail, pheasants, chickens, geese, and ducks.

5 Research - The potential for TSEs in non-ruminant livestock and fish

6 Research - Survey for TSEs in Irish pigs fed meat and bone meal

7 Research - Real-time detection of prohibited mammalian and avian material in animal feed

8 Research - Detection of pig DNA in feedstuffs

9 Research - Detection of poulty DNA in feedstuffs

10 EU TSE Roadmap 2

11 Bovine spongiform encephalopathy aka BSE- WOAH

12 Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 laying down health rules as regards animal by-products and derived products not intended for human consumption and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 (Animal by-products Regulation) (legislation.gov.uk)

13 Chapter 2.7 Specified Risk Material Controls (foodstandards.gov.scot)

14 Revised_Protocol_to_the_Withdrawal_Agreement.pdf (publishing.service.gov.uk)

15 Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of food | Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of food

16 Minutes of 101st meeting | Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of food

17 Forests and Deforestation, Ritchie. H and Roser, M. (2021)

18 UK Roundtable on Sustainable Soya: Annual progress report 2023

19 Water relations and water management of soybean | FAO

20 UK Roundtable on Sustainable Soya: Annual progress report 2023. Based on estimates that at least 24% was physically deforestation and conversion free.

21 The Future of Animal Feed: Animal by-products and insects, Food Standards Agency

22 Global Insect Protein Market – Industry Trends and Forecast to 2029

23 Regulation (EC) No 2017/893 of the European Parliament and of the Council Permits use of: Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens), Common Housefly (Musca domestica), Yellow Mealworm (Tenebrio molitor), Lesser Mealworm (Alphitobius diaperinus), House cricket (Acheta domesticus), Banded cricket (Gryllodes sigillatus) and Field Cricket (Gryllus assimilis).

24 The Future of Feed: A WWF Roadmap to Accelerating Insect Protein in UK Feeds

25 Guidance note on feed controls in the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations (publishing.service.gov.uk)

Contact

Email: tsefeedreview@gov.scot

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