Assured Food Standards (AFS) has revised the Industry Code of Practice for On-Farm Feeding to ensure it is up to date and takes into account any changes to legislation since the previous version was produced in August 2006. 
The code provides all those involved in the feeding of farmed livestock with a simple explanation of the feed hygiene regulations and a guide to best practice.
The main changes relate to the registration and approval requirements in Section 2, which have been in force since 2008. AFS state that members of the Red Tractor Farm Assurance Schemes for beef and lamb, pigs and dairy must keep a copy of this document on farm and so farmers are encouraged to download it from their website as soon as possible.
However, since it has only just been revised and published, assessors will continue to accept the previous version (August 2006) for the time being, but will let farmers know on inpection that a revised version is now available.
The full document can be downloaded from the Red Tractor website under the Standards section.
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