The committee adopted the report (codecision procedure, first reading) by
Marit PAULSEN (ELDR, S) amending the Commission proposal for a Directive
on undesirable substances and products in animal nutrition. The amendments
were aimed at widening the scope of the directive so as to cover all
products intended for animal feedingstuffs and to make it applicable to
"homegrown" feedingstuffs, i.e. those grown on the farm where they are
consumed. As the entire scope of the directive was defined by the first
paragraph of Article 1, the committee adopted an amendment referring to
undesirable substances and products "in products of any kind intended for"
animal nutrition, thus ensuring that this collective term could be used to
include feedingstuffs, feed materials, feed additives and premixtures. The
committee also sought to introduce much stricter levels for mercury,
cadmium, dioxin and PCBs in certain feedingstuffs. It argued that the only
way to reduce contamination at the end of the food chain was to exclude at
the start feed materials that were too highly contaminated.