Monitoring-Report-Feed-Sector-2018-Gesamt

Monitoring- Report 2017 Futtermittel Monitoring- Report 2018 Feed NO CONTAMINATION OF FEEDS DETECTED After a year and a half of tug-o’-war, the EU member states agreed in November 2017 with a slim majority to extend the authorisation of glyphosate by another five years. The debate is now continuing on national level. In April 2018, Federal Agri- culture Minister Julia Klöckner presented a draft regulation for glyphosate in which she is planning comprehensive restrictive measures for the use of plant protection products containing glyphosate and the development of adequate alternatives. Among other things, use of the substance on agricultural sur- faces is only to be possible in future in justified exceptional circumstances. The evaluation of official Feed Monitoring since 2002, as well as data obtained from the QS feed monitoring programme, show that no contamination of feeds with glyphosate has occurred up to now. All test results were below the maximum residue level. 99 percent of the data from the QS scheme were below the detection and quantification limits. It was only possible at all to determine a value for glyphosate in four samples, and this value was far below the maximum permissible level in all cases, in line with the regulation on maximum residue levels. ■ Glyphosate: National restrictions announced SAMPLES OF THE OFFICIAL FEED CONTROL AND QS FOR GLYPHOSATE: ■ Max. two applications on the same area within one calendar year at intervals of at least 90 days ■ Max. 3.6 kg of active substance per hectare and year ■ Routine pre-harvest treatment with the goal of controlling harvests or optimising threshing results is not permissible In addition to this, pre-harvest applications are only permitted in exceptional circumstances when there is a risk of losing the harvest or if harvesting capability has to be ensured. Late ap- plications are only permitted on partial areas on which harves- ting would not otherwise be possible due to weed growth through crops in storage and/or the second formation of shoots in cut or standing crops. ■ Source: Annual statistics on official controls of feed monitoring in the Federal Republic of Germany and QS database Year Number of Samples until 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 55 34 500 504 646 Information in the database The gate-keeper regulation has been expanded to include an obligation whereby all raw materials and suppliers used for gate-keeping have to be registered in the QS database. Using this additional information, individual data sets can be better recorded and evaluated with various feeds with the same feed designation. Companies which have already entered feeds procured via the gate-keeper regulation into the QS database are requested to provide the additional information retroactively for deliveries made since 01.01.2018. It can be necessary when opening up new markets to procure goods from non-certified producers or traders for a limited period. For this reason, the option of gate-keeping exists in the QS scheme, e.g. for non-certified ad- ditive and premix producers or non-certified traders when procuring agricultural primary products. An essential component of this is the assumption of feed monitoring for the supplier. ■ Gate-Keeping – Procurement of goods from non-certified companies Cereal grains, their products and by-products 1,021 Maize, Wheat Oil seeds and oil fruits and other oil-supplying plants, their products and by-products 210 Soybean, Rapeseed By-products of fermentation and distillation 95 Vinasse, Dried istillers grain feed Products and by-products from terrestrial animals 62 Animal Fat Premixes 61 – Minerals 56 Calcium carbonate, Sodium chloride By-products of milk processing 28 Whey/Milk powder Former foodstuff, products and by-products of food production 27 Bakery and pastry products, Dairy products Tubers and roots, their products and by-products 25 Dried sugar beet pulp, Potato protein Proteins obtained from microorganisms 21 Brewer´s/Yeast Product Group Number of Samples Period: 01.01.2017 until 30.06.2018 Status: 30.06.2018 Gate-Keeping in numbers TOP 10 – PRODUCT GROUPS WITHIN GATE-KEEPING Country Number of Samples Spain Italy Hungary Poland Croatia Ukraine Romania Serbia Russia Germany * 301 300 282 130 125 112 71 54 49 46 Period: 01.01.2017 until 30.06.2018 59 4,979 1,680 61,057 ... of which without exceeding ... of which with exceeding ... of which values < LOD/LOQ ... of which values > LOD/LOQ SAMPLES WITHIN GATE-KEEPING ANALYSES WITHIN GATE-KEEPING Country Number of Samples France Brazil USA Bulgaria India Ireland China Indonesia Denmark Slovakia 43 33 29 27 15 14 12 12 10 9 *Purchase of premixes/additives Year Number of Samples 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 689 597 643 40 11 Total: 3,719 Currently applicable application restrictions for glyphosate in agriculture: If a feed is tested under the gate-keeper regulation, the sample type “Gate-Keeping” must be selected in the data- base. of which mainly … Period: 01.01.2017 until 30.06.2018 ! TOP 20 – ORIGINS WITHIN GATE-KEEPING The samples that were examined for gate-keeping hardly show any defects (proportion of samples with exceedances of maximum levels, limit values for action or guidance values lies at 3.4 percent). A glance at the individual analyses shows that levels were below the detection/quantification limit in 92.5 percent of the samples.