#32026R1017EU authorises L-threonine feed additive for all animal species
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This regulation authorises L-threonine produced with a specific Escherichia coli strain as a nutritional feed additive for all animal species. It can be used in feed and in drinking water, but businesses must manage the risk of nutritional imbalances, especially when adding it through water. Feed businesses must label the additive properly, indicate moisture content, storage conditions and stability, and make sure the product is protected from rumen breakdown when used for ruminants. Operators also need worker safety procedures because inhalation exposure to endotoxins is a concern; protective equipment is required where risks cannot be controlled otherwise.
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Key Changes
- Authorises L-threonine produced with Escherichia coli CCTCC M 2024477 as a nutritional feed additive for all animal species.
- Allows use in feed and drinking water, with warnings to avoid amino acid imbalances.
- Sets labelling, rumen-protection, endotoxin exposure and worker protection requirements until 28 May 2036.
Obligations
What this law requires
Use L-threonine produced with Escherichia coli CCTCC M 2024477 as a feed additive only under the conditions set out in the Annex for the authorised additive category 'nutritional additives' and functional group 'amino acids, their salts and analogues'.
Indicate the storage conditions and the stability of the additive to heat treatment and in water for drinking in the directions for use of the additive and premixtures.
Ensure that L-threonine is rumen protected when the additive is fed to ruminants.
Indicate the moisture content on the label of the L-threonine additive.
Include on the labelling of the additive and premixtures the statement that supplementation with L-threonine, particularly via drinking water, must take account of all essential and conditionally essential amino acids to avoid nutritional imbalances.