List of ingredients permitted to be made into animal feed in Vietnam

List of ingredients permitted to be made into animal feed in Vietnam (Internet image) 

List of ingredients permitted to be made into animal feed in Vietnam 

Currently, the list of ingredients permitted to be made into animal feed is specified in Appendix V issued together with Circular 21/2019/TT-BNNPTNT, specifically as follows:

What is animal feed?

According to the Law on Animal Husbandry, animal feed means any raw or processed product given to domesticated animals including complete feed, concentrated feed, feed additives and traditional feed.

Commercial animal feed means animal feed produced for trading purpose.

Requirements applied for commercial animal feeds before put into circulation

- Applied standards and conformity declaration shall be made as per law provisions on technical standards and regulations and product and goods quality.

- The animal feed quality must meet the applied quality standard declared and equivalent technical regulations.

- Animal feeds must be produced by the facility granted a certificate of eligibility for animal feed production by the competent state management agency.

- Information on animal feed products must be posted on the portal of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

- Labels or documents attached to animal feeds must comply with regulations in Article 46 of the Law on Animal Husbandry; 

Conditions for animal feed production in Vietnam

Every producer of commercial animal feeds or ordered animal feeds must:

(1) ensure that his/her production facility is not located in the area contaminated by hazardous waste or poisonous chemicals;

(2) design the production area or place equipment adhering to one-dimensional principle from inputs to outputs and ensure that production areas are separated from one another for cross-contamination prevention;

(3) have lines and equipment suitable for animal feed production;

(4) take measures to maintain ingredients used in animal feeds upon recommendation of their suppliers;

(5) take measures to control harmful organisms, impurities or waste causing contamination for the purpose of protecting safety and quality of animal feeds;

(6) have equipment and instruments used for measurement that are tested or calibrated as regulated;

(7) own or hire a laboratory to analyze animal feed quality during production process;

(8) have technicians who obtain a university degree or higher in animal husbandry, veterinary medicines, biology, food technology or postharvest technology;

(9) ensure that the facility producing animal feeds containing antibiotics takes measures to prevent spread or cross-contamination of different antibiotics or cross-contamination between animal feeds containing antibiotics and those without antibiotics;

(10) adopt methods for environmental protection in conformity with law provisions on environmental protection.

 Producers of internal-use animal feeds must satisfy conditions specified in points (1), (2), (4), (5), (6), (7), (9) and (10), except for production of animal feeds used in family farm.

Duong Chau Thanh

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