FEATURE Setting the agenda E uropean feed manufacturers certainly have no shortage of challenges to contend with these days. Whether it's the effect the European Union's (E.U.) zero-tolerance policy on GM products is having on the feed supply or the rising cost of feed materials, due in part to the E.U. policy on renewable fuels, members of the European feed industry have plenty of concerns. As it has for nearly 50 years, the European Feed Manufacturer's Federation (FEFAC) is looking for solutions to these and other problems facing the industry. FEFAC represents the interests of the European Compound Feed Industry at the level of the European govern- by Arvin Donley New President Pedro Corrêa de Barros says improving feed safety, maintaining access to imports and keeping European feed and livestock production competitive are among the group's top priorities mental institutions. Pedro Corrêa de Barros, who took over as FEFAC president in June, said maintaining competitiveness and sustainability of feed and livestock pro- www.World-Grain.com / World Grain / December 2007 duction in the E.U., improving feed and food safety; and maintaining access to imported feed materials (the E.U. is set to become a net importer of cereals for the first time in decades) are among the 23http://www.World-Grain.com