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The Role ofllie European Feed Industry...

Once adopted, the new feed hygiene Regulation will then become the futurę legał reference of the FEFAC Action plan for feed safety.

HACCP - based safety assurance system

Feed business operators - other than primary producers - have to implement an HACCP system to ensure feed safety and operators must respect the hygiene re-quirements defined in the Annexes to the Regulation.

The HACCP - system includes a description of the process diagram of the produc-tion process. This does mean, that each individual company in the feed production chain has to describe the different steps of production from start to finish. In the compound feed industry this process diagram has to be described in the handbook of the company from the moment the recipe is draw up until the moment of distribution of the feed to the stable. That does mean, that for each badge the recipe, the purchasing and transport of feed ingredients and auxiliaries, the reception and storage after reception, the dosage, grinding and mixing, the pressing, conditioning, pelletting and cooling, the storage and delivery has to be described. The badge has to be identified and the registration of the delivery to the individual farms is mandatory. Based on a risk analyses critical control points in the process diagram for individual badges should be defined and monitored. The selection of this critical control points should be based on risk, probability of occur-rence and severity of the risk. Depending on the category of the critical control point analytic results of the monitoring should be available before the start, before finalising the production or as control monitoring backwards.

The HACCP module in the feed mills forces the individual feed companies to dis-covery and register the critical control points in there production process and to monitor the process on critical risk factors.

For this reason f.i. in the Dutch Good Manufacturing Practice System (GMP+) regular monitoring does take place on Salmonella incidence. The results of this monitoring in animal feed is presented in table 1.

Medicina Yeterinaria 7(4) 2008