Registration and approval of feed businesses

All businesses that make, use or market animal feed in Scotland need to register with Food Standards Scotland

Person holding a handful of mixed animal feed in a barn, with feeding troughs and animals visible in the background.

What you need to know

ll businesses that make, use or market animal feed in Scotland need to register with Food Standards Scotland from 1 April 2021.

Approval applies to those establishments which carry out certain higher risk activities such as the manufacture and marketing of certain feed additives or premixtures of feed additives, or the production of feed containing specified feed additives.

Under retained EU regulation, there is a system for the approval and registration of feed business establishments that manufacture, market, distribute or use animal feeds.

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