NEWS 96 FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE July 2024 FEDIAF EuropeanPetFood held its Annual Congress and Annual General Meeting (AGM) at the Sofitel Hotel in Warsaw, Poland. The event, attended by over 100 members and guests from 15 trade associations, representing 18 countries in Europe, emphasized the crucial role of protecting key pet food ingredients, including feed additives, essential for nourishing Europe’s 352 million pets. After welcoming remarks from FEDIAF’s President, Rosa Carbonell, and Secretary General, Sonia Franck, Marta Koncewicz and Pawel Mackiewicz, from Poland’s General Veterinary Inspectorate, provided a welcome to Poland and valuable insights into potential enhancements to the authorization process. Paola Ferraro, Legislative Officer DG SANTE, Food Hygiene, Feed and Fraud, European Commission, then outlined the ‘risk management’ process and Joerg Seifert, Secretary General of FEFANA (the EU Association of Specialty Feed Ingredients and their Mixtures), shared his perspectives on the future of the reauthorization process. Representatives from EFSA (European Food Safety Authority), Matteo Innocente, Scientific Officer, FEEDCO Unit, and Oscar Gonzalez, Scientific Coordinator, FDP Unit, offered essential guidance on their services, submission procedures, and renewal processes. Following the presentations, an engaging Q&A session moderated by Matt Elliot, Regulatory Affairs Manager at Mars Petcare Europe and Chair of FEDIAF’s Additives Working Group, provided attendees with an opportunity to delve deeper into the discussed topics. Read more>> FEDIAF spotlights key ingredients and additive authorisation at Annual Congress ForFarmers entered into an agreement to acquire Van Triest Veevoeders, which specialises in trading residual flows and co-products. The acquisition concerns the buying and selling activities, including the associated storage and transshipment facilities and means of transport. ForFarmers, under the name CirQlar, is already active in supplying co-products and residual flows. According to the company, the acquisition fits with ForFarmers’ For the Future of Farming mission: by using more and more co-products, contributing to a sustainable future with affordable and sustainable food by producing milk, meat and eggs. Van Triest has been active in trading residual flows and co-products since 1959. The company has purchasing agreements with breweries, the dairy, sugar, bioethanol and potato processing industries and, as regards roughage, with many farmers. They sell the products, including brewer's grains, potato pulp, silage maize and wet beet pulp to some 3,500 farmers mainly in the Netherlands but also in Belgium and Germany. Van Triest has an infrastructure in terms of logistics, storage and transshipment and possibilities for mixing residual flows in Hoogeveen and Coevorden. Van Triest trades over 1 million tonnes of residual flows annually and has 90 employees. ForFarmers, under the name CirQlar, has been active in the Netherlands in supplying and valorising co-products. and has storage and transshipment sites in Lochem and Heijen. Read more>> ForFarmers acquires Van Triest for sustainable future
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