New Draft Regulations on Organic Production (October 2001)

ANNEXURE V:  Feed materials, feed additives, processing aids and substances used in feeding stuffs

 1.         FEED MATERIALS FROM PLANT ORIGIN

1.1        Cereals, grains, their products and by-products.  Included in this category, but not limited to, are the following:

            Oats as grains, flakes, middlings, hulls and bran;  barley as grains, protein and middlings;  rice as grains, rice broken, bran, and germ expeller;  millet as grains, rye as grains, middlings, feed and bran; sorghum as grains;  wheat as grains, middlings, bran, gluten feed, gluten and germ;  spelt as grains, triticale as grains;  maize as grains, bran, middlings, bran, germ expeller and gluten;  malt culms;  brewers' grains.

1.2        Oil seeds, oil fruits, their products and by-products.  Included in this category, but not limited to, 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, turnip rape seed as expeller and hulls, pumpkin seed as expeller;  olive pulp (from physical extraction of olives).

1.3        Legume seeds, their products and by-products.  Included in this category, but not limited to, are the following:

            Chick peas as seeds; ervil as seeds; chickling vetch as seeds submitted to an appropriate heat treatment; peas as seeds, middlings, and bran; broad beans as seeds, middlings and bran; horse beans as seeds, vetches as seeds and lupin as seeds.

1.4        Tuber roots, their products and by-products.  Included in this category, but not limited to, are the following:

            Sugar beet pulp, dried beet, potato, sweet potato as tuber, manioc as roots, potato pulp (by-product of the extraction of potato starch), potato starch, potato protein and tapioca.

1.5        Other seeds and fruits, their products and by-products.  Included in this category, but not limited to, are the following:

            Carob pods, citrus pulp, apple pomace, tomato pulp and grape pulp.

1.6        Forages and roughages.  Included in this category, but not limited to, 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, but not limited to, are the following:

            Molasses as a binding agent in compound feeding stuffs, 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.         FOOD MATERIALS FROM ANIMAL ORIGIN

2.1        Milk and milk products.  Included in this category, but not limited to, are the following:

            Raw milk, milk powder, skimmed milk, skimmed milk powder, buttermilk, buttermilk powder, whey, whey powder, whey powder, whey powder low in sugar, whey protein powder (extracted by physical treatment), casein powder and lactose powder.

2.2       Fish, other marine animals, their products and by-products.  Included in this category, but not limited to, 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.  Fish meal.

3.         FEED MATERIALS FROM MINERAL ORIGIN

            The following substances are included in this category:

4.         FEED ADDITIVES

4.1      Trace elements.  The following substances are included in this category:

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 Fertilizers, Farm Feeds, Agricultural Remedies and Stock Remedies 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

4.3       Enzymes. The following substances are included in this category:

            Enzymes authorised under the Fertilizers, Farm Feeds, Agricultural Remedies and Stock Remedies 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 No. 36 of 1947

4.5        Preservatives.  The following substances are included in this category:

            Formic acid only for silage

            Acetic acid only for silage

            Lactic acid only for silage

            Propionic acid only for silage

4.6       Binders, anti-caking agents and coagulants.  The following substances are included in this category:

            Colloidal silica

            Kieselgur

            Sepiolite

            Bentonite

            Kaolinitic clays

            Vermiculite

            Perlite

5.         PROCESSING AIDS USED IN FEEDING STUFFS

5.1      Processing aids for silage. The following substances are included in this category:

            Sea salt, coarse rock salt, enzymes, yeasts, whey, sugar, sugar beet pulp, cereal flour, molasses and lactic, acetic, formic and propionic bacteria.

            When weather conditions do not allow for adequate fermentation, the inspection authority or body may authorise the use of lactic, formic, propionic and acetic acids in the production of silage.