Contamination hot topic at feed conference
Prohibited substances as well as contamination inward Equus caballus feeds were amid the topics nether intelligence at this week’s British Equestrian Trade Association (BETA) Feed Industry Conference.
Almost seventy delegates were treated to a topical programme of informative as well as thought-provoking presentations, at Whittlebury Hall, nigh Towcester.
The touching of the BETA NOPS (Naturally Occurring Prohibited Substances) Code – develop to assist forestall contamination past times naturally occurring prohibited substances inward feed – was highlighted past times Dr Mark Dunnett of Independent Equine Nutrition (IEN), who looked at the means inward which it was helping to cutting positive tests inward finished products as well as raw materials.
He reported that the NOPS Code was having a beneficial termination overall as well as revealed that he had establish a reduction inward the contamination of finished feed, increased raw textile testing, a growing purpose of herbals as well as a downward tendency for morphine-related contamination.
Using information supplied past times the British Horse Racing Authority, Dr Dunnett was able to present that at that topographic point had been a considerable reduction inward the incidence of post-race morphine detection betwixt 2011 as well as 2012, amongst figures cutting dramatically.
Tim Franck, of the Foods Standards Agency’s Animal Feeds Unit, provided a clear motion-picture present of the latest legislation applicable to the industry.
Robert Clegg, of Mars Horsecare, explored the ongoing sourcing of non-GM soya inward a climate where cross-contamination from GM soya cannot survive ruled out, premiums for non-GM crops proceed to rising as well as at that topographic point is a shared render chain amongst the Great Britain feed industry, which is increasingly using non-GM Soya inward creature feed.
Simon Wetherald, possessor of Bardsey Mills, inward West Yorkshire, as well as winner of the Virbac Equine SQP (Suitably Qualified Person) of the Year award, presented an honest – as well as highly amusing – sentiment of the feed delineate of piece of job concern from a retailer’s perspective, earlier the draft of a novel BETA Feed Code as well as label guidance was addressed past times Ruth Bishop, of Ruth Bishop Consulting.
She identified telephone substitution elements of the code as well as explained the means it would operate inward relation to the regulatory landscape of feed as well as medicine law, as well as equestrian sport. The draft of the BETA Feed Code Part 1 was currently beingness reviewed past times regime agencies as well as feedback from members of the feed manufacture was welcomed. The BETA Code volition assistance manufacturers of Equus caballus feed as well as supplements inward agreement the legislation as well as its interpretation of them.
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