Article 4 General obligations
United Kingdom
Feed business operators must ensure that all stages of production, processing and distribution under their control are carried out in accordance with relevant hygiene requirements laid down in F2assimilated law.
When feeding food-producing animals, farmers shall take measures and adopt procedures to keep the risk of biological, chemical and physical contamination of feed, animals and animal products as low as reasonably achievable.
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Textual amendments
- F1
Art. 4(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animal Feed (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/654), regs. 1, 37; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
- F2
Word in Art. 4(1) substituted (27.2.2025) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/82), reg. 1(2), Sch. 11 para. 9(a)