Food and feed hygiene

Current legislation requires feed businesses to be approved or registered with their local authority, as appropriate, and they must not operate without such registration / approval.

Examples of feed businesses include:

• feed manufacturers
• feed importers
• sellers of feed
• feed transporters
• storers of feed
• food companies selling co-products or surplus food for use in feed
• pet food manufacturers
• livestock farms, fish farms or arable farms growing and using or selling crops for feed use

It is illegal to feed:

• ruminants (cattle, sheep, antelopes, deer, giraffes, and their relatives) with any form of mammalian protein
• livestock (including fish and horses) with mammalian meat and bone meal

More information is available from:

• Defra website
• Foods Standards Agency website