AIC at 20: Creating a GB Register of Feed Materials
As AIC marks 20 years as the UK agri-supply industry’s leading trade association, we're looking back at some of its greatest achievements since it was founded in 2003.
Each week throughout 2023, we’ll explore a major achievement where AIC represented its Member businesses, promoted the benefits of modern commercial agriculture in the UK, and supported collaboration throughout the food chain.
Find out how AIC collaborated with the industry to launch a Register of Feed Materials for Great Britain.
Industry collaboration
Following the UK's withdrawal from the European Union, AIC worked with other major feed industry trade associations to provide a technical solution to allow the animal feed industry to comply with the legal requirement to notify new feed materials.
Previously this legal requirement was met by feed companies registering all materials on the EU's equivalent feed register.
However, after EU Exit, this was no longer recognised in UK law and so created the need for a new register specifically for businesses operating in Great Britain.
The Register of Feed Materials for Great Britain is a practical online portal which allows animal feed businesses to declare new feed materials being made available to the market.
A result of close collaboration with the British Association of Feed Supplement and Additive Manufacturers (BAFSAM), the British Equestrian Trade Association (BETA) and the UK pet food manufacturing trade body (UK PetFood), as well as the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and Food Standards Scotland (FSS), this initiative helps both feed manufacturers and businesses seeking to introduce new feed materials into the UK market.
The Register is also beneficial to feed manufacturers searching for new materials to use in feed products.
Find out more about the animal feed sector by watching the video below.
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Authors
Oli Hill
As Head of Communications, Oli creates and oversees the content published on AIC's website, emails, Member briefings, print publications, and social media. A qualified multimedia journalist, he previously spent six years working at Farmers Weekly magazine as a Senior Reporter on the arable team, and latterly as Community Editor. More recently he was Communications Manager at Red Tractor.
