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FEFAC calls for investigation of contaminated feed
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM — Patrick Vanden Avenne, president of the European Feed Manufacturers’ Federation (FEFAC), on Jan. 4 expressed his satisfaction that compound feed industry own-control programs led to the discovery in Germany of a contamination by dioxins of fatty acids coming from a biodiesel manufacturer which has processed used cooking oils. These products, which have been declared “for technical use only,” were used in the production of fats destined to the feed chain. He pointed to the fact that all compound feed companies which have received batches of the contaminated feed fats are fully cooperating with the competent authorities to trace all farms that could have been delivered compound feed containing the contaminated fats. He said that the implementation by the compound feed industry of own-control programs has substantially improved its capacity to detect dioxin contaminations entering the feed material supply chain. Vanden Avenne said that such incidents are regrettable and should not occur, given the track record of past contamination incidents. However, the highly unusual dioxin congener proﬁle indicates a different, yet unknown contamination pathway in the biodiesel industry, which must be veriﬁed without delay. He stressed the need to further improve traceability systems and testing plans at the level of suppliers of blended fats and mixed fatty acids, in particular when such companies are also manufacturing products for technical use.

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FEFAC: action needed to prevent pig market collapse
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM — The European Feed Manufacturers’ Federation (FEFAC) President Patrick Vanden Avenne on Jan. 21 called on the E.U. Farm Council Presidency to take urgent measures to prevent the collapse of the E.U. pig market. He stated that “the current market situation of the E.U. livestock sector is extremely worrying. In particular, the E.U. pig sector is facing a near market collapse. A key reason for this situation lies in the rising cost for feed grains, which have recently reached the levels of 2007-08, resulting from global demand outpacing supplies of feed grains. The current market crisis has been further exacerbated by the knock-on effects of the dioxin incident in Germany, leading to a drastic fall in domestic consumption and temporary closure of some important export markets for German pigmeat. In the meantime, however, market experts anticipate that the present tension on the E.U. and global cereals markets may grow further before the end of the marketing year due to rising global competition for scarce feed grain supplies.” FEFAC therefore urged the E.U. Farm Council to ease the market access to the supply of competitive feed grains on the E.U. market by suspending the import duties for all cereals as in 2007, in the light of the exceptional market situation. FEFAC also fully supports the request of COPA-COGECA to open the private storage mechanism for pigmeat.
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