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Ia Eu-Ru Sps-Req KZ TR Feed and Feed Additives 2008 en
Ia Eu-Ru Sps-Req KZ TR Feed and Feed Additives 2008 en
The Collected Acts of the President and the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 2008,
No. 15, page 138
1. The attached Technical Regulations “The Requirements to Safety of Feed and Feed
Additives” shall be approved.
2. This decree shall become effective six months after the date of their first official
publication.
Prime-Minister of the
Republic of Kazakhstan
Approved
by decree No. 263 of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan
as of March 18, 2008
1. Scope
2. These Requirements are applied to the activities of all individuals and legal entities which
take part in the production (manufacture), transportation, storage and sale of food and food
additives.
3. Feed and feed additives as well as raw materials during their production (manufacture),
storage and usage may bring risks to the health and life of animals and people who use the
animal products in the event that:
2) low-grade or fabricated raw materials and packing materials which do not comply with the
sanitary standards are used;
4) agents for deratization and insect control are improperly applied or kept;
5) preserved feed which contain an increased amount of chemical agents (preserving agents)
are used.
4. The risk control under prevention of possible adverse effect is exercised at the stages of:
2. Definitions
safety of feed and feed additives – absence of inadmissible risk in all processes (stages) of
the engineering (elaboration), production (manufacture), turnover, utilization and disposal of
feed and feed additives;
feed – products of vegetable, animal, mineral, microbiological and chemical origin used to
feed animals; such products contain digestible nutrients and do not have any adverse effect on
the animals health;
feed additives – substances of organic, mineral and (or) synthetic origin used as sources of
any deficient nutrients and minerals and vitamins in the animal ration;
feed value – a complex of properties of feed which provide satisfaction of the physiological
needs of animals in necessary substances and energy;
animals – all types of domestic, wild, zoo, circus, laboratory, decorative, fur-bearing, marine
animals and other hydrobionts, birds, bees, fish;
expiration date - the end date of a period within which feed or feed additives are deemed to
be safe for the usage as intended upon compliance with the conditions of the processes (stages)
of the production (manufacture), turnover of feed and feed additives;
compound feed – a mixture of different feed and feed additives which are cleaned from any
impurities and reduced to necessary sizes, which provides a full feeding of animals of a certain
type and productivity;
metal foreign matter - metal particles of different sizes and forms, which are contained in feed
or feed additives; that can be attracted by magnet;
productive animals – animals which are used or may be used to make animal products;
non-productive animals – animals which are not intentionally used to make animal products;
hay – feed received as a result of the grass unwatering that contains not more than 17 %
weight of moisture;
haylage – feed which is prepared of grass taken on the early vegetative stages and dry cured
up to moisture of at least 40 % and kept under anaerobic conditions;
inadmissible risk – a risk which exceeds the safety level of products determined in
accordance with the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
storage life – a period within which feed or feed additives, upon compliance with the
specified storage conditions, are characterized by quality and safety prescribed in the regulations;
pelleted feed – compressed finely reduced feed of cylindrical or squared shape of certain
sizes which contains a dry substance in compliance with the requirements of the technical
regulations;
risk – a probability of adverse effect of feed and feed additives on the animals health and
consequences of such effect which result in a danger to the life and health of animals;
toxicity – a property of feed and feed additives which characterizes the content of toxic
agents in the amount above the permitted level and which can provoke a disease or death of
animals;
raw materials – objects of vegetable, animal, microbiological, chemical and mineral origin
which are used to produce (manufacture) feed and feed additives;
rough feed – feed which contains not more than 22 % of moisture and 0.65 feed units per 1
kg of a dry substance.
3. The Requirements to Safety of Feed and Feed Additives under Their Turnover in the
Republic of Kazakhstan
6. To sell and apply as well as to import feed and feed additives, the internal trade facilities
shall have premises and conditions which provide acceptance, control, identification and storage
of feed and feed additives in accordance with the applicable regulations on the certain types of
feed and feed additives.
7. The main conditions for the feed and feed additives turnover in the Republic of
Kazakhstan are:
1) compliance of feed and feed additives with the requirements of these Technical
Regulations;
2) availability of a documents which confirms the origin of feed and feed additives, the
compliance (certificate of compliance and (or) compliance mark or declaration of compliance);
3) availability of information on feed and feed additives on the marks and (or) supporting
documents of their producer, supplier and (or) seller.
The conditions, terms of storage and sale of feed and feed additives shall exclude any
probability of contamination and damage.
The term of sale is specified by the producer (manufacturer) in pursuance of the applicable
regulations on the standardization of feed and feed additives.
8. The following feed and feed additives are not allowed to be sold:
3) feed and feed additives which are not accompanied by documents confirming their origin
or not provided with any information;
4) feed and feed additives which do not comply with the information specified in the
submitted documents;
5) feed and feed additives which are not marked with respect to information prescribed by
the Technical Regulations.
Special equipment and marked trade tools (ladles, tongs, dustpans, etc.) are applied under the
sale of feed and feed additives. Unpacked feed and feed additives may not be weighted on the
scales without packing materials.
9. Feed and feed additives which are imported to the Republic of Kazakhstan shall be entered
to the State Register of Feed and Feed Additives of the Republic of Kazakhstan and they shall
comply with the requirements hereof.
10. Feed and feed additives shall be imported in compliance with the conditions which
ensure their safety and with the qualitative indicators determined by the applicable regulations on
standardization.
4. The Requirements to Safety of Raw Materials Used for the Production (Manufacture) of
Feed and Feed Additives
11. The raw materials which are received from sites (territories) that are deemed to be unsafe
with respect to highly dangerous diseases of animals and birds and entered into the list of highly
dangerous diseases of animals, which lead to obligatory withdrawal and disposal of animals,
products and raw materials of animal origin constituting a danger to the health of animals and
people may not be used for the production (manufacture) of feed and feed additives.
Feed and feed additives may not be produced (manufactured) of (with the use of) the tissues
of animal origin.
12. The conditions of conservation, storage and transportation of the raw materials for the
production (manufacture) of feed and feed additives shall be in compliance with the laws of the
Republic of Kazakhstan with respect to veterinary and safety of food products.
13. Succulent feed (green feed, haylage, silage) is used as feed in whole form or in finished
state and as raw materials being a part of full ration feed and feed additives.
Green feed shall comply with the qualitative indicators determined by the applicable
regulations on standardization. Green feed shall have no indications of mold formation, or
foreign odor of poisonous plants.
Rough feed (hay, straw) is used in pure form and as raw materials being a part of feed
mixtures – to produce (manufacture) pelleted feed. Rough feed shall not contain any moldiness,
poisonous plants (Acroptylon repens, Coronilla varia, Sophora alopecuroides), foreign odors
(stale, moldy, putrefactive odor), pathogenic fungi and plants.
Raw materials - grains (wheat, barley, avena, rye, corn, maize, arachis, sunflower seeds,
triticale) supplied for the feeding purposes to produce compound feed and grain feed crops (vicia
sativa, chickpea, faba vulgaris, lens, lupine, soybean, pea) shall contain no ergot, smut, blasts or
foreign impurities. Grains which are used as raw materials shall comply with the requirements
specified herein.
Raw materials – root tuber crop and cucurbits (feed) crop shall not contain any moldiness
and may not exceed the determined standards of hazardous and poisonous substances content.
14. The raw materials, equipment, packing and ancillary materials (hereinafter – the
materials) shall be stored in the conditions which provide safety of the end products (feed and
feed additives) and exclude a possibility of its incidental contamination. Under storage of the raw
materials and materials the rotation system is applied; according to this system those raw
materials and materials which were received earlier than other raw materials and materials are
firstly issued from the warehouse. Special premises (structures) which exclude a possibility of
their entering by insects and rodents are used to store feed and feed additives.
15. The fulfillment of the requirements to safety of preserving cultures, enzymes, probiotic
cultures, milk and whey solids shall be guaranteed by their producers. Each batch of such
products which is used for the production of feed and feed additives shall be accompanied by the
standard veterinary certificates.
5. The Requirements to Safety of Feed and Feed Additives under Their Production
(Manufacture)
16. In accordance with the veterinary and sanitary requirements the requirements to safety of
feed and feed additives under their production (manufacture) include determination of necessary
levels of lighting, microclimate, noise, vibration and content of dust and hazardous substances in
the air of the working area.
17. The technological equipment designed for the production of feed and feed additives shall
comply with the requirements specified by the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan with respect
to safety of machines and equipment.
18. The requirements to safety of the technological processes (drying, grinding, pelletizing,
addition of preservative agents, cultures propagation, evaporation, pasteurization, sterilization)
provide the compliance with the technical regulations to such products. Safety of the
technological processes may be assured through exercitation of the production control over their
fulfillment.
19. The following requirements shall be fulfilled under the production (manufacture) of feed
and feed additives:
1) feed for productive ruminant animals shall not contain any components which are received
from any animals, except for fish and other hydrobionts which are not referred to mammals;
2) feed for productive birds shall not contain any components which are received from
ruminant animals, carnivorous animals and birds;
3) feed for productive pigs shall not contain any components of ruminant animals,
carnivorous animals or pigs;
4) feed for productive animals received from the countries which are unsafe with respect to
bovine spongiform encephalopathy shall not contain any components of any animals, except for
fish and other hydrobionts which are not referred to mammals.
The criteria of safety of the preserved feed, particularly industrial sterility, are the absence of
microorganisms which can be active under the storage temperature prescribed for preserves of a
certain type, as well as the absence of microorganisms and microbial toxins which are dangerous
for the health of animals.
20. The quality and safety of feed and feed additives under the production (manufacture)
shall be regulated through conduction of its own production control and veterinary and sanitary
examination.
21. The content of toxic agents, pathogenic microorganisms, mycotoxins, nitrites, nitrates,
pesticides, herbicides, radionuclides, marker polychlorinated biphenyls in feed and feed additives
shall not exceed the specified veterinary standards (indicators) which are approved by the
authorized veterinary body.
22. All feed and feed additives which are produced (manufactured) and imported to the
Republic of Kazakhstan shall be registered with the state authorities in accordance with the
procedure prescribed by the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan with respect to veterinary and
safety of food products.
23. A production (manufacture) facility for feed and feed additives shall be installed upon
submission of the veterinary and sanitary report.
24. All facilities are assigned with registration numbers in accordance with the procedure
prescribed by the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan with respect to safety of food products.
25. A production (manufacture) facility for feed and feed additives shall be located in the
territories which are safe with respect to infectious diseases of animals and birds and operated in
compliance with the veterinary and sanitary rules.
2) separation by partition walls and/or separate premises to conserve raw materials, produce
and store feed and feed additives, prevent contamination by microorganisms, dirt, reagents, etc.;
3) effective ventilation in the production, ancillary and utility premises, as well as in the
premises for screening and other methods of protection from access by birds, animals and insects
in accordance with the applicable regulations for the industrial enterprises.
27. The commercial cultures and/or probiotic cultures are prepared in a specially arranged
department which complies with the following requirements:
1) it is located on the same production subdivision where the main consuming plants are
located, but in isolated premises;
2) it shall have separate premises with conditions for protection of cultures and cultures from
contamination by microorganisms, bacteriophages and other contaminants;
3) it shall have a supply and exhaust ventilation system and (or) another air purification and
handling system.
The production supervision department shall control the quality of cultures and (or) probiotic
cultures under preparation (production) of the commercial cultures and active bacteriological
concentrates at all stages of the production cycle.
4) districts from which production waste (solid or liquid waste) cannot be effectively
removed.
7. The Requirements to Safety of Feed and Feed Additives under Their Storage,
Transportation, Marking and Packing
29. Feed and feed additives shall be stored in special warehouses under the conditions which
provide their safety under consumption by animals until their expiration date.
30. The producer (manufacturer) determines the expiration date of feed and feed additives,
conditions of their storage and transportation, depending on type and method of the production
(manufacture).
Feed and feed additives may not be stored and transported with fuels and lubricants as well
as food products which have a specific odor.
31. Feed and feed additives are transported in dry clean transportation facilities which are not
infected by pests in accordance with the procedure prescribed by the authorized veterinary body.
32. Feed and feed additives shall be marked and packed in accordance with the laws of the
Republic of Kazakhstan.
8. The Requirements to Safety of Feed and Feed Additives under Their Disposal
33. Feed and feed additives shall be withdrawn from commerce if:
1) they do not comply with the requirements specified by the laws of the Republic of
Kazakhstan with respect to veterinary and safety of food products and these Technical
Regulations;
34. Feed and feed additives that are withdrawn from commerce shall pass through veterinary
and sanitary examination according to the results of which their safety is determined.
35. In the event that according to the results of the veterinary and sanitary examination some
feed and feed additives are admitted to be dangerous to the health of animals such feed and feed
additives shall be disposed in accordance with the procedure specified by the laws of the
Republic of Kazakhstan.
36. The compliance of feed and feed additives shall be verified in accordance with the
applicable laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
37. The list of harmonized standards (evidential base) which provide the compliance with the
requirements specified by these Technical Regulations is indicated in supplement 2 hereto.
38. The product standards provide obligatory compliance with the requirements hereof.
39. The applied standards on feed and feed additives which provide the compliance with the
safety requirements specified by these Technical Regulations shall be harmonized in accordance
with the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the technical regulation.
40. These Technical Regulations become effective upon expiration of six months from the
date of their first official publication.
41. From the date on which these Technical Regulations become effective the regulatory
legal acts and standard technical documents applicable in the territory of the Republic of
Kazakhstan are applied to the extent not contradicting to this document until they are brought
into accordance with these Technical Regulations.
Supplement 1
to the Technical Regulations
1504
0307600000
19 Feed products of the dairy products industry:
1) dried skim milk (skim milk)
2) dry whey 0402
3) unskimmed milk dry equivalent 210500
20 Protein and vitamin additives and amido-vitamin
additives
21 Products of the microbiological industry:
1) feeding yeast
2) enzymes
3) amino acids
4) vitamins
22 Feed additives of mineral origin:
1) chalky flour
2) feed chalk
3) sea shells
4) feed calcium phosphate
5) zeolites, bentonites
2309909700
23 Organic synthesis products
feed methionine 2309909300
24 Full ration compound feed for productive birds (chickens,
ducks, gooses, turkeys, pheasants, quails, ostriches,
guineafowls)
25 Compound feed concentrates for wild fowl
26 Compound feed concentrates for pigs:
1) for sucking pigs
2) for pigs fattening performance test
3) full ration compound feed for bacon-pig production
4) full ration compound feed for pigs
27 Compound feed concentrates for bovine animals
28 Compound feed concentrates for sheep
29 Compound feed concentrates for horses:
1) compound feed concentrates for draft horses
2) compound feed concentrates which are pelleted for
brood mares
3) compound feed concentrates which are pelleted for
trained and sport horses
4) compound feed concentrates which are pelleted for
feedlot horses
5) compound feed concentrates for breeding and fattening
of young horses
6) compound feed concentrates for milch horses
30 Compound feed concentrates for fur-bearing animals
(foxes, arctic foxes, sables, minks)
31 Compound feed concentrates for rabbits and coypus
32 Compound feed concentrates for pond fish (fingerlings,
young breeder, breeding stock, two-year-old and three-
year-old pond cyprinid fish and trout)
33 Compound feed concentrates for salmonid,
sturgeon fish
34 Dry and concentrated feed for non-productive animals:
1) dogs and cats
2) decorative birds 2309109000
3) aquarium fish
4) rodents
35 Premixes
Supplement 2
to the Technical Regulations
List
of Harmonized Regulations