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
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
11 Bovine spongiform encephalopathy aka BSE- WOAH
13 Chapter 2.7 Specified Risk Material Controls (foodstandards.gov.scot)
14 Revised_Protocol_to_the_Withdrawal_Agreement.pdf (publishing.service.gov.uk)
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
Contact
Email: tsefeedreview@gov.scot
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