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The EU modifies Clostridium butyrate FERM BP-2789 as a condition for the authorization of feed additives for fattening chickens, laying hens and small poultry

foodmate 2023-02-13

On February 2023, 2, according to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), at the request of the European Commission, the EU Animal Feed Additives and Products (FEEDAP) Research Group modified Clostridium butyrinate FERM BP-9 as fattening chickens, laying hens and small chickens Scientific opinion on the conditions for the authorization of feed additives for poultry (excluding laying hens).

 
It is understood that the authorized minimum level of Clostridium butyrate FERM BP-2789 as a feed additive for fattening chickens, laying hens and small poultry is 2.5×108 CFU/kg full feed. The applicant requested that this level be reduced to 1.25×108 CFU/kg feed. Due to the lack of sufficient data, the expert panel was unable to draw conclusions about the efficacy of this additive on the target species at a dose of 1.25×108 CFU/kg feed. Some of the original articles are reported below:
 
The additive Miya-Gold® consists of viable cells of Clostridium butyricum FERM BP-2789. The additive is currently authorised in the EU for use as a feed additive for chickens for fattening, chickens reared for laying, turkeys for fattening, turkeys reared for breeding, minor avian species (excluding laying birds), piglets (suckling and weaned) and piglets of minor porcine species. The authorisation for chickens and minor poultry species for fattening and reared for laying is at a minimum level of 2.5 × 10CFU/kg complete feed. The applicant has requested to lower this level to 1.25 × 108 CFU/kg feed. The Panel on Additives and Products or Substances used in Animal Feed (FEEDAP) did not co nsider any of the five long-term trials and one pooled analysis of two of them as supporting evidence for the efficacy of the additive at the lower dose due to the incompliance of the husbandry co nditions in which the chickens were reared with those indicated in Directive 2007/43/EC. Owing to the lack of adequate data, the Panel is not in the position to conclude on the efficacy of Miya-Gold® at 1.25 × 108 CFU/kg feed for the target species.

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