AFCA-CIAL: missions and objectives

Serving companies to better meet the challenges of the livestock industry

AFCA-CIAL :

Federates, represents members and promotes their industries: manufacturers and suppliers of mineral feed, supplementary and dietetic feed, liquid feed, premixtures, functional ingredients, additives.
Is the privileged contact for the public authorities for the industries that it represents
Carries out a regulatory watch and keeps the industry informed
Carries out collective actions in line with societal challenges.
Interacts and coordinates with other organisations in the animal production industry at the national and European levels.
Collects and publishes statistics on sector production

AFCA-CIAL’s vision

AFCA-CIAL promotes responsible animal nutrition that involves the sector companies in:

Feed safety

Animal health and well-fare

Sustainability

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A few examples of professional actions

AFCA-CIAL’s role is to ensure the collective defence of companies in the supplementary feed and specialised nutrition sector as well as the animal feed additives and functional ingredients industry.

AFCA-CIAL works closely with the other animal nutrition organisations: SNIA (National Union of the Animal Compound Feed Industry), La Coopération Agricole Nutrition Animale and the regional associations, FEEDSIM, FACCO (Federation of pet food manufacturers), QUALIMATs, TECALIMAN, OQUALIM (Association for feed safety and animal feed quality), DURALIM (French collaborative platform for the sustainable nutrition of livestock), CSNA (Scientific Council for Animal Nutrition).

OQUALIM

Since 2008, OQUALIM, an association created by animal nutrition professionals, coordinates the collective actions aims at improving the quality and feed safety of animal nutrition in France thanks to the implementation of pooled self-monitoring plans and the certification of animal nutrition plants, in order to guarantee compliance with Good Hygiene Practices and traceability.

AFCA-CIAL and its members are actively involved in OQUALIM by being members of the Board of Directors, by participating in certification steering committees and by being members of the different working groups (update to the Guide of Best Practices in Animal Nutrition, STNO, STNE, Laboratories…).
AFCA-CIAL also administers the “Supplements” pooled self-monitoring plan.

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DURALIM

Duralim is the French collaborative platform for the sustainable nutrition of livestock. It brings together over 100 members – importers, feed manufacturers, professional organisations, distributors – around a shared project: to work on the sustainability of feed for farm animals. In 2018, a strong commitment was made to achieve 100% of sustainable supplies with an aim of non-deforestation by 2025 at the latest. AFCA-CIAL has been involved in this association since 2017.

AFCA-CIAL is a member of the Board of Directors within the “animal nutrition” group, an expert for the “ingredient suppliers” group and a member of the Bureau. It coordinates the “additives, premixtures and supplements” sector of the platform.

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Autres actions de l’AFCA-CIAL

Promote and manage the use of plant products in animal feed

Manage the use of claims in animal feed

Clarify and simplify VAT rates on animal nutrition

Create an industry sector for the collection and recovery of animal nutrition product packaging

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