{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-regulations-1991/schedule-6/part-I",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-regulations-1991/schedule-6/part-I.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2840",
  "legislation_title": "The Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-regulations-1991",
  "path": "schedule/6/part/I",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "I",
  "heading": "CATEGORIES OF INGREDIENTS FOR USE IN RELATION TO COMPOUNDFEEDING STUFFS FOR PET ANIMALS",
  "text": "Description of the Category\nDefinition\n1. Meat and animal derivatives\nAll the fleshy parts of slaughtered warm-blooded land animals fresh or preserved by appropriate treatment, and all products and derivatives of the processing of the carcase or parts of the carcase of such animals.\n2. Milk and milk derivatives\nAll milk products, fresh or preserved by appropriate treatment and derivatives from the processing thereof.\n3. Eggs and egg derivatives\nAll egg products fresh or preserved by appropriate treatment, and derivatives from the processing thereof.\n4. Oils and fats\nAll animal and vegetable oils and fats.\n5. Yeasts\nAll yeasts, the cells of which have been killed and dried.\n6. Fish and fish derivatives\nFish or parts of fish, fresh or preserved by appropriate treatment, and derivatives from the processing thereof.\n7. Cereals\nAll types of cereal, regardless of their presentation, or products made from the starchy endosperm.\n8. Vegetables\nAll types of vegetables and legumes, fresh or preserved by appropriate treatment.\n9. Derivatives of vegetable origin\nDerivatives resulting from the treatment of vegetable products in particular cereals, vegetables, legumes and oil seeds.\n10. Vegetable protein extracts\nAll products of vegetable origin in which the proteins have been concentrated by an adequate process to contain at least 50% crude protein, as related to the dry matter, and which may be restructured or textured.\n11. Minerals\nAll inorganic substances suitable for animal feed.\n12. Various sugars\nAll types of sugar.\n13. Fruit\nAll types of fruit, fresh or preserved by appropriate treatment.\n14. Nuts\nAll kernels from shells.\n15. Seeds\nAll types of seeds as such or roughly crushed.\n16. Algae\nAlgae, fresh or preserved by appropriate treatment.\n17. Molluscs and crustaceans\nAll types of molluscs, crustaceans, shellfish, fresh or preserved by appropriate treatment, and their processing derivatives.\n18. Insects\nAll types of insects in any stage of development.\n19. Bakery products\nAll bread, cakes, biscuits and pasta products.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "rev in pt",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/1442",
      "affecting_title": "The Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations 1993"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/1442",
      "affecting_title": "The Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations 1993"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2840/schedule/6/part/I",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:32:26.913984+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."
}