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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/schedule-7/part-I/crossheading-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/schedule-7/part-I/crossheading-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2001/47",
  "legislation_title": "Feeding Stuffs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/feeding-stuffs-regulations-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "schedule/7/part/I/crossheading/1",
  "kind": "crossheading",
  "number": "Chapter A",
  "heading": null,
  "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%\nArsenic\nFeed materials 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 feed materials obtained from the 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\nFeed materials of vegetable origin\n1\nFeed materials 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, sheep and goats\n0.5\nDioxin (sum of PCDD and PCDF), expressed in International Toxic Equivalents\nCitrus pulp\n500 pg I-TEQ/kg (upper bound detection limit)\nNote: Upper bound concentrations are calculated assuming that all values of the different congeners less than the limit of detection are equal to the limit of detection\nFluorine\nFeed materials except:\n150\n— feed materials 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\n2000\nOther complementary feeding stuffs\n125 (fluorine content per percentage point phosphorus in the feeding stuff)\nLead\nFeed materials 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\nFeed materials except:\n0.1\n— feed materials 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)",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
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    {
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    {
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      "affecting": "nisr/2001/47",
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    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2002/263",
      "affecting_title": "Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/306",
      "affecting_title": "Feeding Stuffs (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "deleted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/306",
      "affecting_title": "Feeding Stuffs (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2004/443",
      "affecting_title": "The Feeding Stuffs, the Feeding Stuffs (Sampling and Analysis) and the Feeding Stuffs (Enforcement) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2004/215",
      "affecting_title": "Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/47/schedule/7/part/I/crossheading/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:13:00.843776+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."
}