Commitments
For safe, healthy and sustainable animal nutrition
Feed safety
A fundamental pillar for AFCA-CIAL’s members: safeguarding animal feed in order to safeguard human food.
The animal nutrition operators work on a daily basis, through compliance with health rules, the selection of their ingredients, analyses of their products to provide healthy, safe feed.
AFCA-CIAL is a member of the Board of Directors of OQUALIM (Association for the feed safety and quality of animal feed), which is an association recognised for:
- Its certification of animal nutrition plants with the RCNA. The RCNA is a proven certification dedicated to manufacturers of premixtures and/or compound, mineral, milk-replacer, liquid feed and to distributors of feed and premixtures.
- Its pooled self-monitoring plans, including the “complementary feeds” plan (managed by AFCA-CIAL) to monitor undesirable substances (dioxins, heavy metals, salmonella)
Animal nutrition health and wellfare
Nutrition actively contributes to the health and well-being of farm animals.
Nutrition balanced in terms of nutritional elements covers the essential needs of animals and supports them during key periods such as, for example, the stress of weaning, or following calving/farrowing. It consolidates their defences and health, contributes to improving their well-being and participates in reducing the use of medicines and the risks of antibiotic resistance.
To defend the nutritional solutions offered by its members, AFCA-CIAL has conducted several key projects. Among these:
- Management of the use of plant-based products in animal feed (extracts, essential oils…) with the drafting of a single reference guide at the French and European levels.
- Drafting of a guide to good practices concerning the use of claims in animal feed.
The sustainability of animal sectors
Animal nutrition, as a link in the animal production chain, plays an essential role in industry sustainability. Taking into consideration environmental, social and economic issues when formulating feed contributes to making our breeding models sustainable.
Tangibly, sector players are involved in:
- Improving the production conditions through corporate social responsibility (CSR) approaches and life cycle analyses (LCA).
- Optimising the use of resources (mineral, phosphorus, by-products…) and reducing waste
AFCA-CIAL is a signatory to the DURALIM charter. It is the reference contact for the “additives, premixtures and supplements” sector in the DURALIM platform (Collaborative platform for the sustainable nutrition of livestock).
It encourages its members to commit to sustainable approaches. Through the actions of the European Federation for Compound Animal Feed (FEFAC), it is involved in reducing the impacts of animal industries on the environment.
