ANNEXURE V:
FEED MATERIALS, FEED ADDITIVES, PROCESSING AIDS AND SUBSTANCE USED IN FEEDING STUFFS
1. FEED MATERIALS FROM PLANT ORIGIN
1.1 Cereals, grains, their products and by-products. Included in this category are the following:
Oats as grains, flakes, middlings, hulls and bran; barley as grains, protein and middlings; rice germ expeller; millet as grains; rye as grains and middlings; sorghum as grains; wheat as grains, middlings, bran, gluten feed, gluten and germ; spelt as grains; triticale as grains; maize as grains, middlings, bran, germ expeller and gluten; malt culms; and brewers' grains.
1.2 Oil seeds, oil fruits, their products and by-products. Included in this category are the following:
Rape seed, expeller, and hulls; soya bean as bean, toasted, expeller and hulls; sunflower seed as seed and expeller; cotton as seed and seed expeller; linseed as seed and expeller; sesame seed as seed and expeller; palm kernels as expeller; pumpkin seed as expeller; olive pulp (from physical extraction of olives); and vegetable oils from physical extraction.
1.3 Legume seeds, their products and by-products. Included in this category are the following:
Chick peas as seeds, middlings and bran; ervil as seeds, middlings and bran; chickling vetch as seeds submitted to heat treatment; peas as seeds, middlings and bran; broad beans as seeds, middlings and bran; horse beans as seeds, middlings and bran; vetches as seeds, middlings and bran; and lupin as seeds, middlings and bran.
1.4 Tuber roots, their products and by-products. Included in this category are the following:
Sugar beet pulp, potato, sweet potato as tuber, potato pulp (by-product of the extraction of potato starch), potato starch, potato protein and manioc.
1.5 Other seeds and fruits, their products and by-products. Included in this category are the following:
Carob, carob pods and meal thereof, pumpkins, citrus pulp, apples, quinces, pears, peaches, figs, grapes and pulp thereof, chestnuts, walnut expeller, hazelnut expeller, cocoa husk and expeller, and acorns.
1.6 Forages and roughages. Included in this category are the following:
Lucerne, lucerne meal, clover, clover meal, grass (obtained from forage plants), grass meal, hay, silage, straw of cereals, and root vegetables for foraging.
1.7 Other plants, their products and by-products. Included in this category are the following:
Molasses, seaweed meal (obtained by drying and crushing seaweed and washed to reduce iodine content), powders and extracts of plants, plant protein extracts (solely provided to young animals), spices and herbs.
2. FEED MATERIALS FROM ANIMAL ORIGIN
2.1 Milk and milk products. Included in this category are the following:
Raw milk, milk powder, skimmed milk, skimmed milk powder, buttermilk, buttermilk powder, whey, whey powder, whey powder low in sugar, whey protein powder (extracted by physical treatment), casein powder, lactose powder, curd and sour milk.
2.2 Fish, other marine animals, their products and by-products. Included in this category are the following:
Fish, fish oil and cod-liver oil not refined; fish, molluscan or crustacean autolysates, hydrolysate and proteolysates obtained by an enzyme action, whether or not in soluble form, solely provided to young animals; and fish meal.
2.3 Eggs, their products and by-products. Included in this category are the following:
Eggs and egg products for use as poultry feed, preferably from the same operation.
3. FEED MATERIALS FROM MINERAL ORIGIN
The following feed materials of mineral origin are permitted. For the preservation of feed, they are only permitted in severe weather condtions which do not allow for adequate fermentation.
Sodium:
Unrefined sea salt
Coarse rock salt
Sodium sulphate
Sodium carbonate
Sodium bicarbonate
Sodium chloride
Potassium:
Potassium chloride
Calcium:
Lithotamnion and maerl
Shells of aquatic animals (including cuttlefish bones)
Calcium carbonate
Calcium lactate
Calcium gluconate
Phosphorus:
Defluorinated dicalcium phosphate
Defluorinated monocalcium phosphate
Monosodium phosphate
Calcium-magnesium phosphate
Calcium-sodium phosphate
Magnesium:
Magnesium oxide (anhydrous magnesia)
Magnesium sulphate
Magnesium chloride
Magnesium carbonate
Magnesium phosphate
Sulphur:
Sodium sulphate
4. FEED ADDITIVES
4.1 Trace elements. The following substances are included in this category:
Iron:
Ferrous (II) carbonate
Ferrous (II) sulphate monohydrate and/or haptahydrate
Ferric (III) oxide
Iodine:
Calcium iodate, anhydrous
Calcium iodate, hexahydrate
Sodium iodide
Cobalt:
Cobaltous (II) sulphate monohydrate and/or heptahydrate
Basic cobaltous (II) carbonate, monohydrate
Copper:
Copper (II) oxide
Basic copper (II) carbonate, monohydrate
Copper (II) sulphate, pentahydrate
Manganese:
Manganous (II) carbonate
Manganous oxide and manganic oxide
Manganous (II) sulfate, mono- and/or tetrahydrate
Zinc:
Zinc carbonate
Zinc oxide
Zinc sulphate mono- and/or hepta-hydrate
Molybdenum:
Ammonium molybdate, natrium molybdate
Selenium:
Sodium selenate
Sodium selenite
4.2 Vitamins, provitamins and chemically well defined substances having a similar effect. The following substances are included in this category:
Vitamins authorised under the Fertlizers, Farm Feeds, Agricultural Remedies and Stock Remedies Act, 1947 (Act No. 36 of 1947).
- Preferably derived from raw materials occurring naturally in feeding stuffs; or
- Synthetic vitamins identical to natural vitamins only for monogastric animals.
- The synthetic forms of these substances are permitted only in severe weather conditions which do not allow for adequate fermentation.
4.3 Enzymes. The following substances are included in this category:
Enzymes authorised under the Fertilizers, Farm Feeds, Agricultural Remedies and Stock Remedies Act, 1947 (Act No. 36 of 1947).
4.4 Micro-organisms. The following micro-organisms are included in this category:
Micro-organisms authorised under the Fertilizers, Farms Feeds, Agricultural Remedies and Stock Remedies Act, 1947 (Act No. 36 of 1947) of South Africa.
4.5 Preservatives. The following substances are included in this category:
Acetic acid
Formic acid
Propionic acid
- The synthetic forms of these substances are permitted only in severe weather conditions which do not allow for adequate fermentation.
4.6 Binders, anti-caking agents and coagulants. The following substances are included in this category:
Calcium stearate of natural origin
Colloidal silica
Kieselgur
Sepiolite
Bentonite
Kaolinitic clays
Vermiculite
Perlite
Natural mixtures of stearites and chlorite
4.7 Antioxidant substances. The following substances are included in this category:
Tocopherol-rich extracts of natural origin
5. PROCESSING AIDS USED IN FEEDS
5.1 Processing aids for silage. The following substances are included in this category:
Sea salt, coarse rock salt, whey, sugar, sugar beet pulp, cereal flour and molasses.
Enzymes, yeasts and bacteria authorised under the Fertilizers, Farms Feeds, Agricultural Remedies and Stock Remedies Act, 1947 (Act No. 36 of 1947) of South Africa.
When severe weather conditions do not allow for adequate fermentation, Ecocert-Afrisco may authorise the use of synthetic formic, propionic and acetic acids in the production of silage.
6. OTHER PRODUCTS
6.1 The following substances are included in this category:
Brewer’s yeast