{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-regulations-northern-ireland-1995/schedule-5/part-I",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-regulations-northern-ireland-1995/schedule-5/part-I.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1995/451",
  "legislation_title": "Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-regulations-northern-ireland-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 sugar beet pulp\n4\n— phosphates and feeding stuffs obtained from the processing of fish or other marine animals\n10\nComplete feeding stuffs except:\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 stuff for cattle, sheep and goats\n0.5\nFluorine\nStraight reeding stuffs except:\n150\n— feeding stuffs of animal origin\n500\n— phosphates\n2000\nComplete feeding stuffs except:\n150\n— complete feeding stuffs for cattle, sheep and goats\n— in milk\n30\n—other\n50\n—complete feeding stuffs for pigs\n100\n—complete feeding stuffs for poultry\n350\n—complete feeding stuffs for chicks\n250\nMineral mixtures for cattle, sheep and goats Other 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 feeding 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\n0.02\n(except piglets and chicks)\n0.01\nOther complete feeding stuffs\n0.05\nComplementary feeding stuffs for cattle, sheer and goats (except complementary feeding stuffs for dairy animals, calves and lambs)\n0.03\nComplementary feeding stuffs for pigs and poultry (except young animals) Other complementary feeding stuffs\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 (except laying 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.\nBitter almond — Prunus dulci (Mill.) D A Webb var. amara (DC.) Focke\n(= Prunus amygdalus Batsch var. amara (DC.) Focke)\nUnhusked beech mast — Fagus silvatica L.\nCamelina — Camelina sativa (L) Crantz\nMowrah, bassia, madhuca — Madhuca longifalia (L) Macbr. (= Bassia longifolia L.= Illipe malabrorum Engl.) Madhuca indica Gmelin. (= Bassia latifolia (Roxb.) F. Mueller)\nPurghera — Jatropha curcas L.\nCroton — Croton tiglium L.\nIndian mustard — Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. and Coss. ssp. integrifolia (West.) Thell\nSareptian mustard — Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. and Coss. ssp. juncea\nChinese mustard — Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. and Coss. ssp. juncea var. lutea Batalin\nBlack mustard — Brassica nigra (L.) Koch\nEthiopian mustard — Brassica carinata A Braun\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\nTheobromine\nComplete feeding stuff 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 ally1 isothiocyanate)\n— rape cake or meal\n4000 (expressed as ally1 isothiocyanate)\nComplete feeding stuffs except:\n150 (expressed as ally1 isothiocyanate)\n— complete feeding stuffs for cattle, sheep and goats (except calves, lambs and kids:\n1000 (expressed as ally1 isothiocyanate)\n— complete feeding stuffs for pigs (except piglets) and poultry\n500 (expressed as ally1 isothiocyanate)\nWeed seeds and unground and uncrushed fruit containing alkaloids, glucoside or other toxic substances separately or in combination including:\n(a) Lolium temulentum L.\n(b) Lolium remotum Schrank\n(c) Datura stramorlium L.\nAll feeding stuffs\n3000\n1000\n1000\n1000\nCHAPTER D\nAldrin, Dieldrin } singly, or combined expressed as dieldril\nAll feeding stuffs except fats\n0.01\n0.2\nCamphechlor (Toxaphene)\nAll feeding stuffs\n0.1\nChlordane (sum of cis and trans isomers and of oxychlordane)\nAll feeding stuffs except fats\n0.02\n0.05\nDDT (sum of DDT, TDE and DDE isomers, expressed as DDT)\nAll feeding stuffs except fats\n0.05\n0.5\nEndosulphan (sum of alpha and beta isomers and of endosulphan sulphate, expressed as endosulphan)\nAll feeding stuffs except\n0.1\n— maize\n0.2\n— oilseeds\n0.5\n— complete feeding stuff: for fish\n0.005\nEndrin (sum of endrin and delta-keto-endrin, expressed as endrin)\nAll feeding stuffs except fats\n0.01\n0.05\nHeptachlor (sum of heptachlor and of heptachlor epoxide, expressed as heptachlor)\nAll feeding stuffs except fats\n0.01\n0.2\nHexachlorobenzene (HCB)\nAll feeding stuffs except fats\n0.01\n0.2\nHexachlorocyclohexane (HCH)\nAll feeding stuffs except fats\n0.02\n0.2\n— alpha isomer\nStraight feeding stuffs except fats\n0.01\n0.1\n— beta isomer\nCompound feeding stuffs except compound feeding stuffs for dairy cattle\n0.01\n0.005\n— gamma isomer\nAll feeding stuffs except fats\n0.2\n2.0",
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  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1999/287",
      "affecting_title": "Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1999/287",
      "affecting_title": "Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/259",
      "affecting_title": "Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "words added",
      "affecting": "nisr/1998/373",
      "affecting_title": "Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1998/373",
      "affecting_title": "Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1995/451/schedule/5/part/I",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:38:50.292127+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."
}