{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-regulations-1995/schedule-5/part-I",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-regulations-1995/schedule-5/part-I.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/1412",
  "legislation_title": "The Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-regulations-1995",
  "path": "schedule/5/part/I",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "I",
  "heading": "FEEDING STUFFS",
  "text": "Column 1\nColumn 2\nColumn 3\nSubstances\nFeeding stuffs\nMaximum content in mg/kg of feeding stuffs referred to a moisture content of 12%\nCHAPTER A\nArsenic\nStraight feeding stuffs except:\n2\n— meal made from grass, from dried lucerne, or from dried clover\n4\n— dried sugar beet pulp or dried molassed sugarbeet pulp\n4\n— phosphates and feeding stuffs obtained fromthe processing of fish or other marine animals\n10\nComplete feeding stuffs except:\n2\n— complete feeding stuffs for fish\n4\nComplementary feeding stuffs except:\n4\n— mineral feeding stuffs\n12\nCadmium\nStraight feeding stuffs of vegetable origin\n1\nStraight feeding stuffs of animal origin (with the exception of feeding stuffs for pets)\n2\nPhosphates\n10\nComplete feeding stuffs for cattle, sheep and goats (with the exception of complete feeding stuffs for calves, lambs and kids)\n1\nOther complete feeding stuffs (with the exception of feeding stuffs for pets)\n0.5\nMineral feeding stuffs\n5\nOther complementary feeding stuffs for cattle, sheepand goats\n0.5\nFluorine\nStraight feeding stuffs except:\n150\n— feeding stuffs of animal origin\n500\n— phosphates\n2000\nComplete feeding stuffs\n150\n— complete feeding stuffs for cattle, sheep and goats\nin milk\n30\nother\n50\n— complete feeding stuffs for pigs\n100\n— complete feeding stuff for poultry\n350\n— complete feeding stuff for chicks\n250\nMineral mixtures for cattle, sheep and goats\n2000\nOther complementary feeding stuffs\n125 (fluorine content per percentage point phosphorus in the feeding stuff)\nLead\nStraight feeding stuffs except:\n10\n— grass meal, lucerne meal or clover meal\n40\n— phosphates\n30\n— yeast\n5\nComplete feeding stuffs\n5\nComplementary feeding stuffs except:\n10\n— mineral feeding stuffs\n30\nMercury\nStraight feeding stuffs except:\n0.1\n— feeding stuffs produced by the processing of fish or other marine animals\n0.5\nComplete feeding stuffs except:\n0.1\n— complete feeding stuffs for dogs or cats\n0.4\nComplementary feeding stuffs (with the exception of complementary feedings stuffs for dogs and cats)\n0.2\nNitrites\nFish meal\n60 (expressed as sodium nitrite)\nComplete feeding stuffs except feeding stuffs intended for pets other than birds and aquarium fish\n15 (expressed as sodium nitrite)\nCHAPTER B\nAflatoxin B1\nStraight feeding stuffs except:\n0.05\n— groundnut, copra, palm-kernel, cotton seed, babassu, maize and products derived from the processing thereof\n0.02\nComplete feeding stuffs for cattle, sheep and goats (except dairy animals, calves, lambs and kids)\n0.05\nComplete feeding stuffs for pigs and poultry (except piglets and chicks)\n0.02\nOther complete feeding stuffs\n0.01\nComplementary feeding stuffs for cattle, sheep andgoats (except complementary feeding stuffs for dairy animals, calves and lambs)\n0.05\nComplementary feeding stuffs for pigs and poultry (except young animals)\n0.03\nOther complimentary feeding stuff\n0.005\nCastor oil plant Ricinus communis L.\nAll feeding stuffs\n10 (expressed in terms of castor oil plant husks)\nCrotalaria L. spp\nAll unmilled materials\n100\nFree Gossypol\nStraight feeding stuffs except:\n20\n— cotton cake or meal\n1200\nComplete feeding stuffs except:\n20\n— complete feeding stuffs for cattle, sheep and goats\n500\n— complete feeding stuffs for poultry (exceptlaying hens and calves\n100\n— complete feeding stuffs for rabbits and pigs(except piglets)\n60\nHydrocyanic acid\nStraight feeding stuffs except:\n50\n— linseed\n250\n— linseed cake or meal\n350\n— manioc products and almond cakes\n100\nComplete feeding stuffs except:\n50\n— complete feeding stuffs for chicks\n10\nRye Ergot Claviceps purpurea (Fr.) Tul\nAll feeding stuffs containing unground cereals\n1000\nCHAPTER C\nApricot–Prunus armeniaca L.\n{ All feeding stuffs\n{ Seeds and fruits of the plant species listed opposite as well as their processed derivatives may only be present in feeding stuffs in trace amounts not quantitatively determinable\nBitter almond–Prunus dulcis (Mill.) D A Webb var. amara (DC.) Focke ( = Prunus amygdalus Batsch var. amara (DC.) Focke)\nUnhusked beech mast–Fagus silvatica L. Camelina–Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz\nMowrah, bassia, madhuca–Madhuca longifolia (L) Macbr. ( = Bassia longifolia L.=Illipe malabrorum Engl.) Madhuca indica Gmelin. ( = Bassia latifolia (Roxb.) F.Mueller)\nPurghera–Jatropha curcas L. Croton–Croton tiglium L.\nIndian mustard–Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. and Coss. ssp. integrifolia (West.) Thell\nSareptianmustard–Brassica juncea Czern. and Coss. ssp. juncea Chinese mustard–Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. and Coss.ssp. juncea var. lutea Batalin\nBlack mustard–Brassica nigra (L.) Koch\nEthiopian mustard–Brassicacarinata A Braun\nTheobromine\nComplete feeding stuffs except:\n300\n— complete feeding stuffs for adult cattle\n700\nVinylthiooxazolidone\nComplete feeding stuffs for poultry except:\n1000\n— complete feeding stuffs for laying hens\n500\nVolatile mustard oil\nStraight feeding stuffs except:\n100 (expressed as ally isothiocyanate)\n— rape cake or meal\n4000 (expressed as allyl isothiocyanate)\nComplete feeding stuffs except:\n150 (expressed as allyl isothiocyanate)\n— complete feeding stuffs for cattle, sheep and goats (except calves, lambs and kids)\n1000 (expressed as allyl isothiocyanate)\n— complete feeding stuffs for pigs (exceptpiglets) and poultry\n500 (expressed as allyl isothiocyanate)\nWeed seeds and unground and uncrushed fruit containing alkaloids, glucoside or other toxic substances separately or in combination including:\nAll feeding stuffs\n3000\n(a) Lolium temulentum L.\n1000\n(b) Lolium remotum Schrank\n1000\n(c) Datura stramonium L.\n1000\nCHAPTER D\nAldrin } singly, or combined expressed as dieldrin\nDieldrin } singly, or combined expressed as dieldrin\nAll feeding stuffs\n0.01\nexcept fats\n0.2\nCamphechlor (Toxaphene)\nAll feeding stuffs\n0.1\nChlordane (sum of cis and trans isomers and of oxychlordane)\nAll feeding stuffs\n0.02\nexcept fats\n0.05\nDDT (sum of DDT, TDE and DDE isomers, expressed as DDT)\nAll feeding stuffs\n0.05\nexcept fats\n0.5\nEndosulphan (sum of alpha and beta isomers and of endosulphan sulphate, expressed as endosulphan)\nAll feeding stuffs\n0.1\nexcept — maize\n0.2\n— oilseeds\n0.5\n— complete feeding stuffs for fish\n0.005\nHeptachlor (sum of heptachlor and of heptachlor epoxide, expressed as heptachlor)\nAll feeding stuffs\n0.01\nexcepts fats\n0.2\nHexachlorobenzene (HCB)\nAll feeding stuffs\n0.01\nexcept fats\n0.2\nHexachlorocyclohexane (HCH)\n— alpha isomer\nAll feeding stuffs\n0.02\nexcept fats\n0.2\n— beta isomer\nStraight feeding stuffs\n0.01\nexcept fats\n0.1\nCompound feeding stuffs\n0.01\nexcept compound feeding stuffs for dairy cattle\n0.005\n— gamma isomer\nAll feeding stuffs\n0.2\nexcept fats\n2.0",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/1260",
      "affecting_title": "The Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/1528",
      "affecting_title": "The Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/2072",
      "affecting_title": "The Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/2072",
      "affecting_title": "The Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1998"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1412/schedule/5/part/I",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:08:39.063561+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."
}