Feeding Stuffs Regulations 2000 (S.I. No. 2481 of 2000).

The Regulations apply to farmed animals and pet animals. Feeding stuffs, feed materials, additives and premixtures of additives are prescribed in regulation 3. Sellers of these are required to give to purchasers statutory statements covering their composition, and containing information or instructions as to their storage, handling and use, and to mark them with that information. The contents of statutory statements and other declarations are prescribed by regulation 4 and Schedules 4 and 5 and their form by regulation. Further provisions relevant to statutory statements are contained in regulations 6 and 8. The Regulations also: (a) provide for meanings to be attributed to names of certain material, for the purposes of section 70 of the Act (reg. 8); (b) prescribe the manner in which compound feeding stuffs, additives and premixtures are to be packaged and sealed (reg. 9); (c) regulate the putting into circulation of feed materials (reg. 10 and Schedule 2); (d) regulate the putting into circulation and use of feeding stuffs containing additives and additives to be incorporated in feeding stuffs, and their incorporation therein (reg. 13 and Schedule 3); (e) restrict the marketing and use of feeding stuffs containing certain undesirable products and the putting into circulation and mixing of ingredients containing such substances (reg. 14 and Schedule 7); (f) prohibit the sale and use of compound feeding stuffs containing certain materials (reg. 5); (g) restrict the marketing and use of certain protein sources and non-protein nitrogenous compounds in feeding stuffs (reg. 16 and Schedule 8); (h) control the marketing of feeding stuffs intended for particular nutritional purposes (dietetic feeds) (reg. 19); etc.