Animal Feed Tool
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Great news! Your former foodstuffs are commonly used in animal feed
Email to a friendThe most common are bakery (cakes, bread, biscuits, pastry), cereal-based (breakfast, pasta) and confectionary (chocolate, sweets) foods.
Steps to take next:
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Follow the WRAP guidance (section 3.3 onwards) to ensure
- the food surplus is safe (not decomposing, mouldy or toxic)
- fully and continuously segregated from any prohibited ABPs and untreated permitted ABPs
- free from contaminants and packaging (in the case of packaging you may have an agreement with the feed processor to take charge of the removal of packaging)
- other general compliance for feed ingredient suppliers
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Contact former foodstuff processors
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If you want to supply your former foodstuffs directly to local farms, please ensure that they can take former foodstuffs safely and legally. You may wish to encourage them to go through the farmer section of this tool.
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To ensure safe storage and transport, you may find it useful to consider this example provided by DEFRA on a retailer wishing to supply surplus bakery products for animal feed.
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