Glossary
| Term | Definition |
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| AA: Agricultural Analyst | Defined in Section 66(1) of the Agriculture Act 1970 to mean an agricultural analyst appointed under Section 67 of this Act and, unless the context otherwise requires, includes a deputy agricultural analyst so appointed for the same area. |
| Animal Plant Health | APHA is an executive agency of Defra operating across Great Britian and is responsible for the protection of animal health and welfare. |
| Agent | Third party to which the delivery of official control function has been delegated. |
| ARE | Scottish Government Directorate for Agriculture and Rural Environment |
| Authorised Officers | Means a person who is authorised by the Competent Authority, either generally or specifically, to act in relation to matters arising under the Hygiene Regulations. |
| Co-Product Producers | Food and non-food businesses producing co-products e.g. soya bean expeller from the extraction of oils, and vegetable trimmings (e.g. carrot tops and potato skins), brewers and distillers’ grains, and yeast or glycerine from biofuels. |
| Competent Authority | Defined by Regulation 3 of the Official Feed and Food Controls (Scotland) Regulations 2009 |
| Compliant | Conforming with the requirements of the law. |
| Compound Feeds | A mixture of at least two feed materials, whether containing feed additives for oral animal feeding in the form of a complete or complementary feed (Article 3(2) (g) of Regulation (EC) 767/2009 .
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| Conditional Approval | Approval granted by a Competent Authority pursuant to Article 13 of Regulation (EC) 183/2005 if it appears to a Competent Authority that an establishment meets all the infrastructure and equipment requirements. |
| Consignment | A quantity of goods covered by the same official certificate, official attestation or any other document, conveyed by the same means of transport and coming from the same territory or third country, being of the same type, class or description (Article 3(37) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625). |
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
| The means by which members of a profession maintain, improve or broaden their knowledge and skills and develop the qualities required in their professional lives. |
| The Department of Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) | Working directly in England and working closely with Scottish Government, Defra has designated APHA and VMD for their respective feed roles.
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Delegated Body
| Has the meaning as defined by Article 3(5) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 to mean separate legal person to which the competent authorities have delegated certain official control tasks or certain tasks related to other official activities. |
| Documentary Check | Defined by Article 3(41) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 as the examination of the official certificates, official attestations and other documents including documents of a commercial nature, which are required to accompany the consignment as provided for by the rules referred to in Article 1(2), by Article 56(1) or by implementing acts adopted in accordance with Articles 77 (3), 126(3), 128(1) and 129(1);. |
| Data Sharing Agreement (DSA) | An agreement between FSS and each delegated local authority to set out the roles and responsibilities for data sharing. |
| Delegated Service Level Agreement (DSLA) | An agreement with Agents laying out the requirements for delivery of the feed law function on behalf of FSS. |
| Earned Recognition | FeBO’s who demonstrably maintain high standards of feed safety by taking appropriate steps to comply with the law, may have these standards recognised by the Competent Authority when determining the frequency of their official controls and therefore earn recognition. |
| Electronic. Record and Document Management System (eRDM) | System used by Scottish Government and FFS to store and manage their official documents and records. |
| Export | The action of sending or transporting a commodity outside of a relevant territory. |
| Feed | Any substance or product, including additives, whether processed, partially processed or unprocessed, intended to be used for oral feeding to animals (Article 3(4) of Regulation (EC) 178/2002. |
| Feed Additives | Substances, micro-organisms or preparations, other than feed material and premixtures, which are intentionally added to feed or water to perform one or more of the functions mentioned in Article 5 (3) of Regulation (EC) 1831/2003 (Article 2(2)(a) of Regulation (EC) 1831/2003). |
| Feed Alert | The method by which FSS informs the Authorised Officer and/or other Competent Authorities about feed hazards and advises of specific action to be taken. |
| Feed Business | Any undertaking whether for profit or not and whether public or private, carrying out any operation of production, manufacture, processing, storage, transport or distribution of feed including any producer producing, processing or storing feed for feeding to animals on his own holding (Article 3(5) of Regulation (EC) 178/2002). |
| Feed Business Establishment (FeBE) | Any ‘unit of a feed business. It does not simply mean “premises” but is directly linked to the businessoccupying the establishment (establishment denotes both premises and the way those premises are being used by the FeBO) (Article 3(d) of Regulation (EC) 183/2005). |
| Feed Business Operator (FeBO) | The natural or legal persons responsible for ensuring that the requirements of feed law are met within the feed business under their control (Article 3(6) of Regulation (EC) 178/2002). |
| Feed Business Emergency Prohibition Notice (FBEPN) | Sanction provided in Regulation 22 of The Feed (Hygiene and Enforcement) (Scotland) Regulations 2005. |
| Feed Business Emergency Prohibition Order (FBEPO) | Sanction provided in Regulation 22 of The Feed (Hygiene and Enforcement) (Scotland) Regulations 2005. |
| Feed Complaint | A feed consumer complaint is a complaint received about feed or a feed business from a consumer or member of the public. It may, or may not, result in a feed incident |
| Feed Delivery Branch (FDB) | Branch within FSS which oversees the feed delivery function and provides coordination and administration support to Authorised Officers |
| Feed Hazard | A biological, chemical or physical agent in feed capable of causing adverse effect to public health. |
| Feed Incident | Any event where, based on the information available, there are concerns about actual or suspected threats to the safety, quality or integrity of feed that could require intervention to protect consumers' interests and animals. |
Feed Law
| The laws, regulations and administrative provisions governing feed in general and feed safety in particular, whether at Union or national level at any stage of production, processing and distribution or use of feed (Article 3(2) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625. |
| Feed Management Information System | Database for recording information on registered and approved feed premises including inspection and compliance data. |
| Feed Material | Any products of vegetable or animal origin, whose principal purpose is to meet animal’s nutritional needs, in their natural state, fresh or preserved; any products derived from the industrial processing of such products or organic or inorganic substances which are intended for oral animal feeding, either directly or in a compound feed, or as a carrier of premixtures (Article 3(2) (g) of Regulation (EC) 767/2009 . |
| Food Business Operator (FBO) | The natural or legal persons responsible for ensuring that the requirements of food law are met within the food business under their control (Article 3(3) of Regulation (EC) 178/2002). |
| Food Standards Agency (FSA) | Central Competent Authority for food and feed in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. |
| Food Standards Scotland (FSS) | Central Competent Authority for food in Scotland. FSS is the competent authority for feed in Scotland |
| Formal Enforcement Action | Taking of action against a FeBO as set out in the legislation, for example, the service of a statutory notice to remedy non-compliance with legal requirements or submitting a report to the Procurator Fiscal. |
| General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) | General Data Protection Regulations 2016 – to protect individuals from privacy and data breaches |
| Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) | A systematic preventive approach to food and feed safety from biological, chemical, and physical hazards in production processes that can cause the finished product to be unsafe, and designs measurements to reduce these risks to a safe level. |
| Hygiene Regulation | The Feed (Hygiene and Enforcement) (Scotland) Regulations 2005. |
| Identity Check | A visual inspection to verify that the content and the labelling of a consignment, including the marks on animals, seals and means of transport, correspond to the information provided in the official certificates, official attestations and other documents accompanying it (Article 3(42) of Regulation 2017/625) |
| Import | The action of bringing in goods and/or services from another country outside of Great Britain. |
| Informal Enforcement Action | Bringing to the attention of a FeBO and giving advice on non-compliances with feed law in order that any non-compliance can be quickly remedied by, for example, a letter. |
| INFOSAN | International Food Safety Authorities Network (Word Health Organisation network) is a tool for information exchange, allowing for the implementation of risk management measures to prevent foodborne illness. Itfacilitates the rapid exchange of information across borders and between members. |
| Inspection | The examination of any aspect of feed, food, animal health and animal welfare to verify that such aspect(s) comply with the legal requirements of feed and food law and animal health and welfare rules. This includes partial or full inspections:
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| Intervention | Regulatory actions taken by a government in order to affect or interfere with decisions made by individuals, groups, or organisations regarding social and economic matters. Interventions include official controls and other interventions such as education, advice and coaching, information and intelligence gathering (including sampling where the analysis is not to be carried out by an Official Control Laboratory). |
| Investigation | The action taken by the Competent Authority to gather evidence where it believes an offence has been committed. |
| Imports of Products, Animals, Food and Feed System (IPAFFS) | System used by importers and agents to notify authorities in Great Britain of goods being imported that may be subject to official controls. |
| Known feed establishment | A FeBE that is known to the Competent Authority but has not been formerly registered and/or approved in accordance with The Feed (Hygiene and Enforcement) (Scotland) Regulations 2005. |
| Local Authority (LA) | Has the meaning set out in Section 1 of the Local Government Act 1972. |
Malicious tampering
| For the purposes of this Feed Manual, the deliberate contamination of food or feed by terrorist activity, or with a view to blackmail or extortion. |
| Monitoring | The conduct of a planned sequence of observations or measurements with a view to obtaining an overview of the state of compliance with feed law. |
National Agriculture Panel (NAP)
| The NAP is an expert panel with significant knowledge and experience in animal feed enforcement. NAP membership consists of feed leads from each of the nine English regions, FSA (England, Wales and Northern Ireland), Food Standards Scotland, Public/Agricultural Analysts, VMD, APHA and the Chartered Trading Standards Institute. |
| Non-compliance | Failure to comply with one or more of the requirements of feed law. |
| Official Control | Activities performed by the competent authorities, or by the delegated bodies or the natural persons to which certain official control tasks have been delegated in accordance with this Regulation, in order to verify compliance by the operators with this regulation and the rules referred in Article 1(2) and that animals or goods meet the requirements of the rules referred to in Article 1(2) including for issuance of an official certificate or official attestation (Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625. |
| Official Controls | Any form of control that the Competent Authority or the Community performs for the verification of compliance with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare rules, whether planned or otherwise, partial or full. These include inspections, monitoring, surveillance, verification, auditing, sampling for analysis, physical, documentary and identity checks. |
| Physical Check | A check on animals or goods and, as appropriate, checks on packaging, the means of transport, labelling and temperature, the sampling for analysis, testing or diagnosis and any other check necessary to verify compliance with the rules referred to in Article 1(2) (Article 3(43) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625). |
| Premises | Includes any establishments as well as fixed locations, this includes vehicles, ships, aircraft and other movable structures. |
| Primary Production of Feed | The production of agricultural products, including growing, harvesting, milking, rearing of animals (prior to their slaughter) or fishing resulting exclusively in products which do not undergo any other operation following their harvest, collection or capture, apart from simple, physical treatment, as defined in Article 3(f) (Article 3(f) of Regulation (EC) 183/2005). |
| Risk rating | A method used to determine the risk of feed hygiene and standards within an establishment that informs the frequency of intervention. |
| Sampling | Taking feed or any other substance (including from the environment) relevant to the production, processing and distribution of feed or to the health of animals, to verify through analysis compliance with feed law. |
| Scottish Food Crime and Incident Unit (SFCIU) | Unit within FSS for the purposes of the prevention, investigation and detection of fraud and deliberate non-compliance within the food and animal feed chain. |
| Scottish Food Sampling Database (SFSD) | Database used by FSS and Agents under the DSLA for the logging of feed samples and their results. |
| Specified feed additives (SFA) | Substances routinely added to animal feeding stuffs without prescription for the prevention of coccidiosis or histomoniasis or to favourably affect the growth of animals. |
| Scottish Government Rural Payment and Inspections Division (SGRPID) | Inspection body for regulatory compliance of agricultural land and livestock and delivery of grants and subsidies to the rural sector. |
| Specified feed law | The instruments specified in Schedule 1 of the Feed (Hygiene and Enforcement) (Scotland) Regulations 2005. |
Specified risk material
| The tissues specified in Annex V of Regulation (EC) 999/2001, if the tissues come from animals whose origin is in a country or a region with a controlled or undetermined BSE risk; unless otherwise indicated, it does not include products containing or derived from those tissues (Article 3(1)(g) of Regulation (EC) 999/2001. |
| Standards | Rules and principles defined in feed law that are used as the basis for judgement against. |
| Surplus foods | Food surplus to the requirements of food and drink businesses, including retailers. This This includes out of date products, products that do not meet the required specification, overproduction or are otherwise no longer intended for human consumption. |
| Surveillance | A careful observation of one or more feed businesses, or FeBO’s or their activities. |
| Third Country | A territory or country which is not a part of the United Kingdom. |
| Verification | The examination and the consideration of objective evidence, to determine whether specified requirements have been fulfilled. |
Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD)
| The VMD is an executive agency of Defra. It aims to protect the safety, quality and efficacy of all aspects of veterinary medicines in the UK. The VMD is responsible for issuing all national marketing authorisations for veterinary medicines and for controls on the manufacture and distribution of veterinary medicinal products, SFAs and premixtures and feeding stuffs containing such products. |