Many contagious diseases are passed to livestock through the food chain. To prevent this, our Trading Standards' Animal Health Inspectors:
- carry out regular inspections of both producers and users of animal foodstuffs
- enforce animal feedstuffs legislation
- issue ‘On farm mixers' licences.
Current EC regulations relating to animal foodstuffs came into force on 1 January 2006 and were fully implemented in England on 1 January 2008.
Animal feed regulations
Businesses involved in the production, use, transportation, storage or marketing of animal feeds must be registered with Trading Standards and must comply with animal feed regulations.
If your business is involved in animal foodstuffs, you need to:
- register with or be approved by an appropriate agency, and
- submit a statement of compliance.
You can download the forms you need from the following pages:
Feeding swill to farm animals
Feeding catering waste as swill to farm animals is allowed only under tightly controlled circumstances. To find out more about what is and is not allowed, visit Defra's website:
East Sussex County Council