The Ministry of Agriculture Officially Establishes the Third National Feed Review Committee
On December 15, the Ministry of Agriculture held a meeting in Beijing for the transition of the National Feed Review Committee, and provided training on policies, regulations and technical specifications for all committee members. The meeting pointed out that the new review committee should take ensuring product safety, high efficiency and environmental friendliness and guiding independent innovation and development as the main line, and take improving review quality and efficiency as the core, further improve systems, strengthen capacity, innovate methods, and do all work solidly, so as to provide strong technical support for standardized industry management and industrial transformation and upgrading.
The National Feed Review Committee is a technical review organization established by the Ministry of Agriculture in accordance with the Regulations on the Administration of Feed and Feed Additives. It is responsible for technical checks in the approval of feed and feed additives, and is a very key institutional arrangement in China's feed safety guarantee system. Since its establishment in November 2007, the Second National Feed Review Committee has focused on improving institutional standards, strengthening capacity building, conducting scientific, fair and equitable product technical reviews, actively participating in the construction of the feed industry regulatory system, carried out a large amount of highly effective work, and fully given play to its supporting roles in technical checks, consultation and recommendations.
The Third National Feed Review Committee is composed of 116 experts, with 8 professional groups under it: breeding, animal nutrition and metabolism, feed processing, biotechnology, chemistry and chemical engineering, quality standards and testing technology, environmental protection, and toxicology, pharmacology, hygiene and food safety risk assessment, and policies and regulations. Compared with the previous committee, the number of members has doubled, with a key increase in experts in food safety risk assessment, environmental protection, biotechnology and other fields, making its strength more substantial.