Food Matters

Food matters 

This information is provided by Pet Food Manufacturers Association www.pfma.org.uk

It’s nice to know that the manufacture and sale of pet food is comprehensively regulated. 

• Directly all foods for animals are governed by the same legislation and, as farm animals form part of the human food chain, the laws are necessarily stringent. Furthermore, as pet food is manufactured and distributed in the same way as human food, some legislation governing human food is equally applicable to pet food.

• Indirectly, pet food enjoys the additional legal protection of the law which was designed to safeguard raw materials destined for the human food chain, from which the pet food industry also sources its raw materials. Examples of this include the laws restricting the residue levels of veterinary substances in meat and those of pesticides in cereal products. In addition, there is specific legislation governing pet food. 
  

Understanding Labeling of Pet Food & Labeling Standards     

·         All information given on a pet food label is governed by the Trade Descriptions Act and therefore must be truthful and not misleading about the nature and quality of the product.

www.pfma.org.uk  has 60 member companies which collectively represent around 90% of the UK pet food market.

All this so you can be happy that

what you put in your pets bowl is

‘the right stuff’!

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