The Feed (Sampling and Analysis and Specified Undesirable Substances) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010

Made: 17th September 2010

Coming into operation: 11th October 2010

There has been consultation during the preparation of these Regulations in accordance with the requirements of section 84(1) of the Agriculture Act 1970 or, as appropriate, of Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety[^f00008].

PART 1 — General and introductory

Citation and commencement

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These Regulations may be cited as the Feed (Sampling and Analysis and Specified Undesirable Substances) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 and come into operation on 11th October 2010.

Interpretation

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• (1) In these Regulations —

• “the Act” means the Agriculture Act 1970;

• “Regulation 152/2009” means Commission Regulation (EC) No.152/2009 laying down the methods of sampling and analysis for the official control of feed[^f00009];

• “the Feed Hygiene Regulations” means the Feed (Hygiene and Enforcement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005[^f00010];

• “the GM Feed Regulations” means the Genetically Modified Animal Feed Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004[^f00011];

• “analyst” means an agricultural analyst or deputy agricultural analyst.

• (2) Any expression used in these Regulations and Regulation 152/2009 has the meaning in these Regulations that it bears in Regulation 152/2009.

• (3) Any reference to a numbered section is a reference to the section so numbered in the Act as modified by these Regulations.

• (4) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954[^f00012] shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Prescribed metric substitution

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For the purposes of its application to feeding stuffs, the Act shall be read as if —

• (a) in section 68(2)(b) the words “to sales in quantities of not more than 25 kilograms” were substituted for the words “to sales of small quantities (that is to say, sales in quantities of not more than fifty six pounds or the prescribed metric substitution)”; and

• (b) in section 76(5) the words “six kilograms” were substituted for the words “fourteen pounds or the prescribed metric substitution”.

PART 2 — Miscellaneous requirements relating to sampling and analysis

Methods of sending a final sample

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Analysis other than in the course of official controls

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Form of certificate of analysis

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PART 3 — Amendment and modification of other legislation with regard to sampling and analysis

Amendment or modification of the Act

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The Act is amended or as the case may be modified in accordance with regulations 8 to 19.

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In section 66(1) (interpretation of Part IV), insert at the appropriate place the following definitions —

• “final sample” has the meaning that it bears in Annex I to Regulation 152/2009;

• “Regulation 152/2009” means Commission Regulation (EC) No. 152/2009 laying down the methods of sampling and analysis for the official control of feed;

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Section 68 (duty of seller to give statutory statement) in so far as it applies in relation to feeding stuffs shall apply as if —

• (a) in subsection (4)(b) “final sample” were substituted for “sampled portion”; and

• (b) in subsection (5) —

• (i) “final sample” were substituted for “sample taken from the portion in question”, and

• (ii) “in accordance with Regulation 152/2009” were substituted for “in the prescribed manner”.

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Section 70 (use of names or expressions with prescribed meanings) in so far as it applies in relation to feeding stuffs shall apply as if —

• (a) in subsection (2) “final sample” were substituted for “sampled portion”; and

• (b) in subsection (4) —

• (i) “final sample” were substituted for “sampled portion”, and

• (ii) “that sample” were substituted for “the sample taken from that portion”.

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Section 71 (particulars to be given of certain attributes if claimed to be present) in so far as it applies in relation to feeding stuffs shall apply as if —

• (a) in subsection (2)(b) “final sample” were substituted for “sampled portion”; and

• (b) in subsection (3) —

• (i) “final sample” were substituted for “sampled portion”, and

• (ii) “that sample” were substituted for “the sample taken from that portion”.

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Section 75 (purchaser’s right to have sample taken and analysed) in so far as it applies in relation to feeding stuffs shall apply as if in subsection (1) “in accordance with Regulation 152/2009” were substituted for “in the prescribed manner”.

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Section 76 (inspector’s power to enter premises and take samples) in so far as it applies in relation to feeding stuffs shall apply as if —

• (a) in subsection (1) “in accordance with Regulation 152/2009” were substituted for “in the prescribed manner”; and

• (b) for subsection (4) the following were substituted —

(4) Without prejudice to any other power or duty as to the taking of samples, an inspector may for the purposes of this Part of this Act take a sample of any material which has been sold for use as a feeding stuff or which he has reasonable cause to believe to be intended for sale as such.

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Section 77 (division of samples and analysis by agricultural analyst) in so far as it applies in relation to feeding stuffs shall apply as if —

• (a) for subsection (1) the following were substituted —

(1) Where an inspector has taken a sample and prepared and packaged final samples in accordance with Regulation 152/2009 the inspector, in addition to sending a final sample to an agricultural analyst in Northern Ireland in accordance with the requirements of paragraph 8 of Annex I to that Regulation — (a) shall send one final sample — (i) where the sample was taken pursuant to the request of a purchaser under section 75 of this Act, to the seller or his agent; (ii) in any other case, to the person on whose premises the sample was taken, or, if the person on whose premises the sample was taken purchased the material in question for use and not for resale, to the seller or his agent; and (b) subject to section 78 of this Act, shall retain at least one final sample for nine months.

• (b) for subsection (2) the following were substituted —

(2) If the person who manufactured any material of which an inspector has taken a sample as mentioned in subsection (1) is not a person to whom a final sample is required to be sent under that subsection, the inspector shall send a final sample to the manufacturer unless the inspector does not know and is unable after making reasonable inquiries to ascertain before the expiration of fourteen days from the date when the sample was taken — (a) the manufacturer’s name, or (b) any address of the manufacturer in the United Kingdom.

• (c) in subsection (3) —

• (i) “final sample” were substituted for “part of a sample”, and

• (ii) “in accordance with Regulation 152/2009” were substituted for “in the prescribed manner”; and

• (d) in subsection (4) —

• (i) “final sample” were substituted in each case for “part of a sample” or “part of the sample” as the case may be,

• (ii) “in such manner, if any, as may be prescribed” were omitted,

• (iii) “subsection (1)” were substituted for “subsection (1)(a)”, and

• (iv) in paragraph (b) “subsection (1)(a)(ii)” were substituted for “subsection (1)(b)(ii)”.

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Section 78 (further analysis by Chief Agricultural Analyst) in so far as it applies in relation to feeding stuffs shall apply as if —

• (a) in subsection (1) —

• (i) for paragraph (a) the following were substituted —

(a) to send the final sample retained by the inspector under section 77(1)(b) of this Act (as that section is modified by regulation 17(a) of the Feed (Sampling and Analysis and Specified Undesirable Substances) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010) (“the retained sample”) to the Chief Agricultural Analyst for analysis;

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• (ii) in paragraph (b) “retained sample” were substituted for “remaining part” and “that sample” were substituted for “that part”;

• (b) in subsection (2) —

• (i) “in accordance with Regulation 152/2009” were substituted for “in the prescribed manner”,

• (ii) in paragraph (a)(i) “retained sample” were substituted for “remaining part of the sample”,

• (iii) in paragraph (a)(ii) “retained sample, whether that sample” were substituted for “remaining part, whether that part”, and

• (iv) in paragraph (b) “the retained sample” were substituted for “that remaining part”;

• (c) in subsection (4) —

• (i) “in accordance with Regulation 152/2009” were substituted for “in the prescribed manner”, and

• (ii) “retained sample” were substituted for “remaining part of the sample”;

• (d) in subsection (5) —

• (i) “part of a” were omitted,

• (ii) in paragraph (a) “part of the” were omitted, and

• (iii) in paragraph (b) “the retained sample” were substituted for “the part”; and

• (e) in subsection (6) —

• (i) “in such manner, if any, as may be prescribed any part of” were omitted, and

• (ii) “the sample” were substituted for “the part”.

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Section 79 (supplementary provisions relating to samples and analysis) in so far as it applies in relation to feeding stuffs shall apply as if in subsection (3) —

• (a) “is specified by Regulation 152/2009 or” were inserted after “quality of any material”; and

• (b) “the method so specified or prescribed” were substituted for “the method prescribed”.

Amendment of the Feed Hygiene Regulations

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Amendment of the GM Feed Regulations

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Amendment of the Official Feed and Food Controls Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

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Revocations

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The Regulations or parts thereof listed in Schedule 3 are revoked.

PART 4 — Undesirable substances

Amendment of the Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

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SCHEDULE 1 — Form of Certificate of Analysis

Part 2Notes for completion of certificate.	Part 2Notes for completion of certificate.
1.	Insert date.
2.	Insert name of person submitting the sample for analysis and mode of transport.
3.	Insert the name or description applied to the material.
4.	Insert the distinguishing mark on the sample and the date of sampling shown.
5.	Indicate the particulars marked, labelled or otherwise documented.
6.	Insert the relevant results, the conclusions drawn from those results and any other relevant observations. Expand this section as necessary.
7.	In the case of analysis of substances for which no method is prescribed by relevant EU legislation, after the results indicate the method used.

SCHEDULE 2 — Entries to be substituted in Chapter A of Schedule 5 to the Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Column 1 Undesirable substances	Column 2 Products intended for animal feed	Column 3 Maximum content in mg/kg of feeding stuffs referred to a moisture content of 12%
Arsenic	Feed materials	2
	except:
	– meal made from grass, from dried lucerne or from dried clover, and dried sugar beet pulp and dried molasses sugar beet pulp	4
	– palm kernel expeller	4
	– phosphates and calcareous marine algae	10
	– calcium carbonate	15
	– magnesium oxide	20
	– feeding stuffs obtained from the processing of fish or other marine animals	25
	– seaweed meal and feed materials derived from seaweed	40
	Iron particles used as tracer	50
	Additives belonging to the functional group of compounds of trace elements	30
	except:
	– copper sulphate pentahydrate and copper carbonate	50
	– zinc oxide, manganese oxide and copper oxide	100
	Complete feeding stuffs	2
	except:
	– complete feeding stuffs for fish and for fur-producing animals	10
	Complementary feeding stuffs	4
	except:
	– mineral feeding stuffs	12
		Notes in respect of all entries in column 3:
		The maximum contents refer to total arsenic.
		The maximum contents refer to an analytical determination of arsenic, whereby extraction is performed in nitric acid (5% w/w) for 30 minutes at boiling point. Equivalent extraction procedures can be applied where it can be demonstrated that the procedure used has an equal extraction efficiency.

SCHEDULE 3 — Revocations

• The Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999[^f00017]

• The Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 [^f00018]

• The Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002[^f00019]

• Regulations 2 to 7 of the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) and Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003[^f00020]

• The Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004[^f00021]

• Regulation 23 of the Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005[^f00022]

• Regulation 3 of the Feeding Stuffs and the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 [^f00023]

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 17th September 2010.

L. Devlin — A senior officer of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

1These Regulations provide for the execution of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 152/2009 laying down the methods of sampling and analysis for the official control of feed, (“the Commission Regulation”). The Commission Regulation repeals and re-enacts with certain amendments a large number of European directives concerning methods of sampling and analysis of feeding stuffs. The Regulations revoke the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999, which implemented those directives, and re-enact those administrative provisions of the 1999 Regulations which need to be kept in operation.

2These Regulations also, in Part 4, amend the Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 in order to implement Commission Directive 2009/141/EC amending Annex 1 to Directive 2002/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards maximum levels for arsenic, theobromine, Datura sp., Ricinus communis L., Croton tiglium L. and Abrus precatorius L., (“the Commission Directive”).

3The Regulations put in place administrative and other measures for the execution of the Commission Regulation, in particular —aproviding for metric equivalents of imperial quantities mentioned in the Agriculture Act 1970 (regulation 3);bprescribing the methods of sending samples for analysis (regulation 4);cproviding for the methods to be used where an analysis is carried out other than in the context of official controls (regulation 5); anddprescribing the form to be used for a certificate of analysis (regulation 6 and Schedule 1).

4The Regulations in Part 3 make textual changes to primary and secondary legislation in order to avoid any instances of overlap or inconsistency between the Commission Regulation and domestic legislation (regulations 7 to 22).

5The Regulations implement the Commission Directive by amending provisions of the Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 concerning undesirable substances in animal feeds, notably in relation to maximum permitted levels for the substances mentioned in the title to the Commission Directive as set out in paragraph 2 above (regulation 24 and Schedule 2).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: Formerly the Department of Health and Social Services; See S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1), Article 3

[^f00002]: 1970 c.40; sections 66(1) and 84 are modified in their application to Northern Ireland by section 86 of the Act and were amended by S.R. 2004 No. 506; section 74A was inserted by paragraph 6 of Schedule 4 to the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68)

[^f00003]: S.R. 2000 No. 78

[^f00004]: 1972 c. 68

[^f00005]: S.I. 1999/2027

[^f00006]: S.I. 2000/2812

[^f00007]: S.I. 2003/2901

[^f00008]: OJ No.L31, 1.2.2002, p.1, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No.596/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468 with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny: Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny – Part Four (OJ No. L188, 18.7.2009, p.14)

[^f00009]: OJ No. L54, 26.2.2009, p.1

[^f00010]: S.R. 2005 No. 546, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations

[^f00011]: S.R. 2004 No. 386, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations

[^f00012]: 1954 c.33 (N.I.)

[^f00017]: S.R 1999 No. 296

[^f00018]: S.R. 2001 No. 209

[^f00019]: S.R. 2002 No. 263

[^f00020]: S.R. 2003 No. 287

[^f00021]: S.R. 2004 No. 345

[^f00022]: S.R 2005 No. 545

[^f00023]: S.R 2006 No. 18

Editorial notes

[^key-24f66e76ca70614abdacc75f4015c6f1]: Reg. 1 in operation at 11.10.2010, see reg. 1

[^key-2a14f011f9a3b059af0da9c0b7930802]: Reg. 2 in operation at 11.10.2010, see reg. 1

[^key-22f312a39378fa52adf6f8193eabed61]: Reg. 3 in operation at 11.10.2010, see reg. 1

[^key-a6844e5f67b39ebc6490472565a6fd08]: Reg. 7 in operation at 11.10.2010, see reg. 1

[^key-1b93aa7f8caa96ec63d2b58205b5a509]: Reg. 8 in operation at 11.10.2010, see reg. 1

[^key-5385fac05d3e92d025c0fc168aa2791b]: Reg. 9 in operation at 11.10.2010, see reg. 1

[^key-cb373cf9f591c478fa29e99d534845ac]: Reg. 11 in operation at 11.10.2010, see reg. 1

[^key-4c38a6e266d51f9ec52ec0ac6dd48bd8]: Reg. 12 in operation at 11.10.2010, see reg. 1

[^key-b856a5dbfd0b82fcea404412b39c26d5]: Reg. 15 in operation at 11.10.2010, see reg. 1

[^key-5756453cbbf13f0d6872afcd9a530689]: Reg. 16 in operation at 11.10.2010, see reg. 1

[^key-91c8b24c363728066541a0bb4a21560b]: Reg. 17 in operation at 11.10.2010, see reg. 1

[^key-2ec5f408fdf71232ccc847ead033c061]: Reg. 18 in operation at 11.10.2010, see reg. 1

[^key-7f9d94f99885c5caaee14a1639ff9693]: Reg. 19 in operation at 11.10.2010, see reg. 1

[^key-fe17677882fd4f9e549672ceb06b36e4]: Reg. 23 in operation at 11.10.2010, see reg. 1

[^key-9eb591e265c49ee05f0e53044d9b5b21]: Sch. 3 in operation at 11.10.2010, see reg. 1

[^key-98505e454e617841fd6a89871e5b6ef7]: Sch. 2 revoked (23.11.2010) by The Animal Feed Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/355), reg. 1, Sch. 2

[^M_F_c71d57b0-680c-4c08-9445-53f9a1fe5993]: Reg. 10 revoked (23.11.2010) by The Animal Feed Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/355), reg. 1, Sch. 2

[^M_F_109024c5-486c-4b01-bf59-1cddb98738d0]: Reg. 13 revoked (23.11.2010) by The Animal Feed Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/355), reg. 1, Sch. 2

[^M_F_9b2dee7b-4af8-4e00-fe76-c2033e1e3e08]: Reg. 14 revoked (23.11.2010) by The Animal Feed Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/355), reg. 1, Sch. 2

[^key-78545c61c26076bc2bf7642e065ac9fb]: Reg. 24 revoked (23.11.2010) by The Animal Feed Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/355), reg. 1, Sch. 2

[^key-19162f5b5e37059cafd681824bf023f5]: Sch. 1 revoked (14.2.2016) by The Animal Feed (Hygiene, Sampling etc. and Enforcement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/5), reg. 1, Sch. 5

[^key-3663918e62bfc047d368161a652ee44d]: Reg. 4 revoked (14.2.2016) by The Animal Feed (Hygiene, Sampling etc. and Enforcement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/5), reg. 1, Sch. 5

[^key-1f8fe847671a343f33a9f9b30cd8bf22]: Reg. 5 revoked (14.2.2016) by The Animal Feed (Hygiene, Sampling etc. and Enforcement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/5), reg. 1, Sch. 5

[^key-744f97a1fe8db90603079f33ecfe7e94]: Reg. 6 revoked (14.2.2016) by The Animal Feed (Hygiene, Sampling etc. and Enforcement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/5), reg. 1, Sch. 5

[^key-9ce2d4909324af0e1369034e3bf47d03]: Reg. 20 revoked (14.2.2016) by The Animal Feed (Hygiene, Sampling etc. and Enforcement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/5), reg. 1, Sch. 5

[^key-00a91a04d499017d23b4f9718efa08fd]: Reg. 21 revoked (14.2.2016) by The Animal Feed (Hygiene, Sampling etc. and Enforcement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/5), reg. 1, Sch. 5

[^key-4b96f3dd103d419fffd6aaf897c6a078]: Reg. 22 revoked (14.2.2016) by The Animal Feed (Hygiene, Sampling etc. and Enforcement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/5), reg. 1, Sch. 5

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