"The European Feed Ingredients Platform (EFIP) is a voluntary platform of the major European feed ingredients representatives aiming at an EU wide harmonized understanding and implementation of the EU feed hygiene regulation.
Together, the different sectors and their companies share experience, cooperate and offer concerted guidance to their members and other stakeholders on the shared, non-competitive, issue of feed safety.
Such a harmonized approach strengthens the feed safety situation for the EU livestock industry, the feed chain and ultimately increases the confidence of the consumer in the EU 27. Furthermore, it facilitates trade within the EU internal market by providing uniform requirements.
Together, the different sectors and their companies share experience, cooperate and offer concerted guidance to their members and other stakeholders on the shared, non-competitive, issue of feed safety.Such a harmonized approach strengthens the feed safety situation for the EU livestock industry, the feed chain and ultimately increases the confidence of the consumer in the EU 27. Furthermore, it facilitates trade within the EU internal market by providing uniform requirements.
Members
The EFIP members are the major European associations or federations representing the vast majority of feed materials and ingredients that enter the feed chain.
The EFIP members are the major European associations or federations representing the vast majority of feed materials and ingredients that enter the feed chain.
EFIP Chain Vision
The members of EFIP share the following key elements in their common vision on safety assurance in the feed chain:
• EFIP sees safe feed as a prerequisite for the success of livestock production in the EU
• EFIP builds on the work done by the EU legislator
• EFIP has a pan- European reach
• EFIP strives for EU harmonisation whilst respecting the specificities of its sectors
• EFIP aims at reducing the numerous audits in view of operational efficiency
• EFIP favours feed materials and ingredients sectors to develop tailor made safety rules
And therefore, on this basis, EFIP :
• invites other sectors to step up their efforts in EU harmonisation of safety rules
• calls for a dialogue amongst the various segments of the feed chain
The members of EFIP share the following key elements in their common vision on safety assurance in the feed chain:
• EFIP sees safe feed as a prerequisite for the success of livestock production in the EU
• EFIP builds on the work done by the EU legislator
• EFIP has a pan- European reach
• EFIP strives for EU harmonisation whilst respecting the specificities of its sectors
• EFIP aims at reducing the numerous audits in view of operational efficiency
• EFIP favours feed materials and ingredients sectors to develop tailor made safety rules
And therefore, on this basis, EFIP :
• invites other sectors to step up their efforts in EU harmonisation of safety rules
• calls for a dialogue amongst the various segments of the feed chain
EFIP members have developed EU harmonised feed safety management systems (Codes) based on European Guides. They contain the requirements for a management system, prerequisite programs and hazard analysis, according to the state-of-the-art practices in risk management. In addition, a third party certification system has been developed to make sure that the system will be uniform and consistently applied by the operators in the EU. The Codes can be used as a stand-alone document or integrated in a farm to fork chain approach."
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E-mail: info@efip-ingredients.org
Website: www.efip-ingredients.org
