Consultations

This update provides information about the meeting of the Animal Nutrition & Veterinary Medicines (ANVM) Section of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (SCoPAFF) held on 13-14 October 2016.

A proposal consulted on in 2013 resulted in a revised policy to align FSA authorisation to transport warm (above temperature) meat from domestic ungulates, more closely to the requirements of Regulation No 853/2004.

A new EU regulation, which came into force on 17 November 2014, requires stomachs of ruminants to be scaled or cleaned within the slaughterhouse before they can be transported to another approved food business for handling.

This is a further update on the Commission’s proposal to introduce a new regulation on Bisphenol A (BPA). It follows an update we provided in January 2016.

This update provides information about the meeting of the Animal Nutrition & Veterinary Medicines (ANVM) Section of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (SCoPAFF)

This update provides information about the meeting of the Animal Nutrition & Veterinary Medicines (ANVM) Section of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (SCoPAFF)

The Commission is carrying out an online survey to understand how compliance documentation for food contact materials is being used by both competent authorities and by business operators.

Updated guidance on the testing of milk for antibiotic residues has been published after a routine review.

It is opinion of the FSA that Directive (EU) 2015/254 does not need to be transposed by means of legislation and no action is required to implement the Directive, given that it is a repealing measure for the earlier and now obsolete Directive 93/5/EEC.

A number of issues have been discussed at European Commission working group meetings and Standing Committees - a summary of each issue is provided below for information.