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Animal Feed
Brazil
This section provides the regulatory definition of the feed category in scope, or the appropriate feed category for the product in scope. Additionally, it provides the feed products that belong to this feed category along with the definition and specific information on each of these types of feed products.
In addition, this section evaluates the specific feed category for the product in scope.
2.1 Category Name & Definition
Category Name
Product Intended for Animal Feed
Definition
A Substance or mixture of substances, whether prepared, semi-processed, or unprocessed, which is used in animal feed. [1]
2.2 Product & Definition
1) Feed
Definition
A mixture composed of ingredients intended exclusively for the feeding of pets and constituting a product that is ready to use and able to satisfy wholly or partly their nutritional requirements. [2]
Specifications
None
Additional Information
This only applies to pets.
2) Ration
Definition
A mixture composed of ingredients and additives, intended for the feeding of production animals, which constitutes a product for ready consumption and able to meet the nutritional requirements of the animals for which it is intended. [2]
Specifications
None
Additional Information
This applies to production animals like cattle.
3) Nutritional Additive
Definition
Additive for products intended for animal feed: substance, micro-organism, or formulated product intentionally added to products, that is not normally used as an ingredient, whether or not it has nutritive value, that improves the characteristics of the products intended for animal feed or of the animal products, improves the performance of healthy animals or meets nutritional needs. [3]
Specifications
None
Additional Information
Nutritional additives: any substance used to maintain or improve the nutritional properties of the product.
Nutritional additives - include the following functional groups:
- vitamins, provitamins, and chemically defined substances of similar effects;
- trace elements or compounds of trace elements;
- amino acids, their salts, and analogs;
- Urea and its derivatives. [3]
4) Supplement
Definition
Any substance used to maintain or improve the nutritional properties of the product.
Other definition: A mixture composed of ingredients or additives, which may contain a vehicle or excipient, which should be given directly to the animals or be indicated for dilution to improve the nutritional balance. [4]
Specifications
None
Additional Information
These can be designated as:
- Mineral supplement
- Mineral supplement with urea
- Protein mineral supplement
- Energetic mineral-protein supplement [4]
5) Premix
Definition
It is the premix of additives and vehicle or excipient that facilitates dispersion in large mixtures that cannot be supplied directly to the animals. [2]
Specifications
None
Additional Information
None
6) Nucleus
Definition
A premix composed of additives and macrominerals, whether or not containing a vehicle or excipient, that facilitates its dispersion in large mixtures and that cannot be supplied directly to the animals. [2]
Specifications
None
Additional Information
None
7) Co-product
Definition
It is a product intended for animal feed obtained from solid waste from food industries. [2]
Specifications
None
Additional Information
None
2.3 Evaluation of the Product Category in Scope
The product category in scope would be considered a Nutritional Additive (Amino Acids) per the above based on the following:
Rationale | Comments |
Based on the composition and instruction of use declared on the label, the product meets the definition for Nutritional Additive (Amino Acids). | Other marketed products found with similar composition and above 30% of Lysine are classified as Nutritional Additives (Amino Acids) in Brazil per the below reference. [5] |
2.4 References
1. Decree Nº 6.296 of 2007. Regulation of Law Nº 6.198 of 1974, which provides for the compulsory inspection and supervision of products intended for animal feeding
http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2007-2010/2007/Decreto/D6296.htm
2. Normative Instruction N° 15/2009 Regulating the registration of establishments and products destined for animal feed
3. Normative Instruction MAPA 13/2004. Technical regulation on additives for products intended for animal feed
4. Normative Instruction MAPA 12/2004. Technical regulation on supplements for cattle
5. LIST OF PRODUCTS FOR ANIMAL FEED REGISTERED AND CADASTRE IN THE MAP
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