HACCP involves a systematic risk assessment of all of the many steps involved in animal feed manufacture, the identification of those that are critical for product safety, the introduction of controls and a monitoring mechanism to ensure compliance.

Staff training programmes have been set up for key staff to ensure implementation of a robust HACCP plan and also for mill staff, to provide awareness of responsibilities within the HACCP plan.

Animal feed compounders benefit from the implementation of a HACCP plan and key benefits may include:-

• The implementation of a preventative programme to reduce product losses, product reworks and product recalls
• A move from end product sampling and testing towards a preventative quality assurance programme
• Supports a defence of ‘due diligence’, recognised now in much of the EU feed safety legislation
• HACCP facilitates International trade
• HACCP complies with legal requirements