HC Deb 01 December 1988 vol 142 c321W
26. Mr. Ward

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what monitoring takes place of requests by individual farmers for animal food suppliers to add chemical substances to animal foodstuffs.

Mr. Donald Thompson

All sales of animal feedingstuffs have to meet the requirements of the Feedingstuffs Regulations 1988. Where medicinal substances have been used, the feed must also comply with the Medicine (Medicated Animal Feedingstuffs) Regulations 1988. Samples of feedingstuffs are taken by trading standards officers for analysis. In the case of medicinal substances, there is also enforcement of the controls by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.

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