FEATURE

Mycotoxins and other

hazards controlled by the
use of FSP
by Els van der Boon, GMP+

"Safe feed and food starts with secure risk

management. For this, GMP+ International
offers knowledge and information through the
Feed Support Products (FSP). The Feed Support
Products are intended to support all (future)
GMP+ certified companies when setting up
their company-specific HACCP system"

Your benefits

FSP provides ease of use, a uniform source of relevant data, linking of

relevant files and efficient searching. The benefits of use are:
up-to-date knowledge of risks of feed materials
up to date knowledge of undesirable substances;
assessed by independent experts;
uniform source of knowledge;
automatically linking of all relevant files.

Core values

he responsibility for use and implementation remains with the

GMP+ certified companies, the Feed Support Products can
offer support in this process. The FSP is also intended as a reference for the auditors within the framework of GMP+ certification.

Products of FSP

and adverse effects; Severity of the hazard; Standards; Analysis

methods and Control measures. The company making specific
risk analyses can use the information. Fact sheets are available for
several mycotoxins and other undesirable substances (hazards) in
the Risk Assessments and for processing aids.
2. Generic Risk Assessments
This section of FSP contains about 200 risk assessments of feed
materials for Food-producing animals (including goats, poultry,
cattle, sheep and pigs, but also horses and rabbits). Farmed fish
will be included. The risk assessments in the FSP database are of
a generic nature and represent a worst-case scenario. The risk
assessment gives information about a production process and the
resulting possible hazards.
3. Product list
This list gives a short summary of all products available. The
products (about 600) on the list may be used as a feed material
in the GMP+ Feed Certification scheme.
4. Product standards
Standards with maximum permitted levels have been issued by
legislation and by GMP+ International for many hazards in order
to be able to determine if a feed material is safe. All the standards are a part of the GMP+ FC scheme, GMP+ BA1 Product
Standards. Also the standards for mycotoxins are included.
5. GMP+ Monitoring database
A service from GMP+ International is the GMP+ Monitoring
database. Companies can put their analysis into the database
and can share these results with a group of companies or with
the GMP+ community. Sharing is an option, not a requirement.
Monitoring results can be used to assess the likely occurrence of
a hazard.
The GMP+ Monitoring database is an easy tool for storing and
sharing analysis results. You can easily check if the products meet
the standards.
6. Guidances

At the beginning of 2014, the first GMP+ guidance about implementation of a Feed Safety System in accordance with the GMP+
Feed Certification scheme had been launched. The D1.2 GMP+
Guidance contains all needed information and steps and can be
ordered via the web shop of GMP+ International.

The following products are a part of FSP:

1. Fact Sheets
The fact sheets show background details regarding the hazards
and the (explanation of the) severity of the risk to animals and
humans. The content of the fact sheets is as follows: Nature,
history and prevalence; Transmission to the environment, plants,
animals and humans; Diagnosis of poisoning; Potential hazards

The Feed Support Products operates from four core values:

1. Practical information
The information in FSP about processing, possible hazards, risk
assessments and monitoring data is received from GMP+ companies
2. Science based
The (generic) risk assessments of feed materials fully comply
with the requirements referred to in the HACCP manual for the
animal feed sector (2008).
To substantiate potential adverse effects of a hazard, the information is published in fact sheets for both undesirable substances
and technical processing aids. The severity of hazards indicated in
fact sheets and risk assessments has been evaluated by scientists
of RI-KILT.

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3. Independency
Independent committees review the policy and technical aspects
of FSP; these are the International Expert Committee Animal Feed
(IEC Animal Feed) and the Technical Committee FSP (TC FSP). TC
FSP acts as a HACCP team for the FSP. The TC FSP has members
who are representatives of different subsectors and knowledge
areas (chemical and microbiological).
The meeting of TC FSP will at least take place 2 times a year.
Besides the regular members of the TC FSP advisors can be
invited to TC meetings. These advisors are either laboratory representatives, representatives of the Food and Consumer Product
Safety Authority, or scientists (eg. Rikilt). Also, independent advisors
from certification bodies or consultancy agencies can be invited to
(parts of) the TC.
4. Transparency
GMP+ uses transparent communication to all stakeholders as
well as transparent working methods. Procedures for changes are
described. Every change is communicated to the GMP+ community via the FSP newsletters.

What do we do to have the FSP up to date?

The content of the different products continuously changes due to

new feed legislation, regulations, emerging risks and new scientific information. Changes include new feed materials/products, hazards, new
product-hazard combinations and new standards (legislation). GMP+
International within FSP periodically processes these changes by a
maintenance procedure.
Changes in hazards (severity, effect) are processed in factsheets and/
or risk assessments. If needed, changes in risk assessments, factsheets,
GMP+ standards or monitoring program, are discussed within the TC
FSP. Reasons for changes can be (among others):

In general:
New feed legislation;
Early Warning System (EWS) from GMP+
Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF);
Feed Crises;
New scientific information/new hazards (eg. from TNO, Rikilt,
EFSA);
Practical experiences from companies
Some Information must be evaluated immediately when immediate
action is required, for instance in the case of a newly emerging risk.
Other types of information, for instance scientific information, can be
processed at a later stage and will be filed for planned maintenance of
FSP information (annually).
If new non-conformities related to food and feed safety occur there
must be a short-term evaluation about the consequence for feed (if
it is a non-conformity from food) and the consequences for FSP. New
hazards can be communicated in a short term to the feed sector.
GMP+ certified companies are being informed of changes in risk
assessments and/or fact-sheets by means of newsletters. All newsletters can be found on the GMP+ portal www.gmpplus.org (under In
the Spotlight).

Do you want to be informed about the changes?

Take a free subscription to the GMP+ newsletters:
http://www2.gmpplus.org/en/newsletter.php
The complete document with the FSP working principles can be found
on the GMP+ portal:
https://www.gmpplus.org/pagina/4981/working-principles-of-the
-gmp-feed-support-products-fsp-.aspx

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