Feed Labels

• Statutory declaration

  • Nutritional value (proximate)
  • ingredients
  • additives
  • especially if medicated
  • enzymes
  • which animal group
  • date/batch number/producer
  • traceability
  • part of quality assurance
  • best before/used by date
• Ingredients

  • Ideally the exact composition/ingredient percentages
  • feed industry becomes competitive as their giving away details to their opponents and if competitor can make the same feed slightly cheaper, producers will swap suppliers
  • small margins, large volumes, great impact
  • the solution is to put ingredients in descending order from largest to smallest inclusion level so it will tell you about the quality