{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-england-regulations-2005/schedule-3/paragraph-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-england-regulations-2005/schedule-3/paragraph-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/3281",
  "legislation_title": "The Feeding Stuffs (England) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-england-regulations-2005",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/18",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Compound feeding stuffs: general",
  "text": "In the case of any compound feeding stuff, the following particulars shall be declared either in the statutory statement, or elsewhere on the package, label or container (in which case the statutory statement shall indicate where they are to be found)—\n(a) the net quantity, expressed in the case of solid products in units of mass, and in the case of liquid products in units of mass or volume;\n(b) the minimum storage life, which shall be expressed—\n(i) in the case of microbiologically highly perishable feeding stuffs, by the words “use before . . .” followed by the appropriate date (day, month and year), and\n(ii) in all other cases by the words “best before . . .” followed by the appropriate date (month and year),\nexcept that, where an expiry date for a period is required to be declared by paragraph 2(b) or 3(b), and is earlier than the appropriate date otherwise required by this paragraph, that expiry date shall be used as the appropriate date;\n(c) the batch reference number; and\n(d) the approval or registration number allocated by the relevant enforcement authority to the establishment which manufactured the compound feeding stuff.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2007/3008",
      "affecting_title": "The Feed (Specified Undesirable Substances) (England) Regulations 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/2808",
      "affecting_title": "The Feeding Stuffs (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/2808",
      "affecting_title": "The Feeding Stuffs (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/2808",
      "affecting_title": "The Feeding Stuffs (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2006"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/3281/schedule/3/paragraph/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:44:46.110431+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}