Pet treats regulations

[weblyish]

Sorry have had a search but not found what I'm looking for so just asking the crowd

Boy1 has won a place on a charity overseas trip next year and needs to raise about a grand towards it.

I've been dehydrating the odd deer liver or heart for our own hound for years
Boy has decided to see if he can sell these and it's probably not a bad idea given some initial trial with friends. Fag packet maths says one deers worth of fox food will do about 80 quid of treats

Any serious regs I should be aware of if he sells to friends and family?

I'm trained hunter and LA registered anyway if that's relevant and obvs would inspect and treat as per human food so am confident the product is fine but know nothing about the regs

 

[scotch_egg]

UK law treats pet food production as a regulated activity because of animal health and safety (e.g., disease control, contamination).
So while your own dog treats at home are fine under the private domestic exemption, producing them for others to feed to their pets usually means it becomes a feed business requiring proper approvals.

Trained Hunter doesn’t give automatic business rights: Being a trained hunter doesn’t automatically let you sell processed products (e.g., dog treats) without also complying with pet food/animal by-products regulations and appropriate approvals (e.g., APHA registration) — that’s a separate regulatory framework.

 

[weblyish]

UK law treats pet food production as a regulated activity because of animal health and safety (e.g., disease control, contamination).
So while your own dog treats at home are fine under the private domestic exemption, producing them for others to feed to their pets usually means it becomes a feed business requiring proper approvals.

Trained Hunter doesn’t give automatic business rights: Being a trained hunter doesn’t automatically let you sell processed products (e.g., dog treats) without also complying with pet food/animal by-products regulations and appropriate approvals (e.g., APHA registration) — that’s a separate regulatory framework.

That answer was useful and enabled me to find the relevant regs
All seemed fairly simple to comply until I read the bacterial sampling requirements
10 samples of 30g each twice for 2 different bacterial tests taken randomly from your production line
- 600g of dried liver is my entire production line

Using animal by-products to make pet food

Animal by-products (ABPs) you can use to make pet food, how to provide samples, and how to package your products.

www.gov.uk

 

[VSS]

Sorry have had a search but not found what I'm looking for so just asking the crowd

Boy1 has won a place on a charity overseas trip next year and needs to raise about a grand towards it.

I've been dehydrating the odd deer liver or heart for our own hound for years
Boy has decided to see if he can sell these and it's probably not a bad idea given some initial trial with friends. Fag packet maths says one deers worth of fox food will do about 80 quid of treats

Any serious regs I should be aware of if he sells to friends and family?

I'm trained hunter and LA registered anyway if that's relevant and obvs would inspect and treat as per human food so am confident the product is fine but know nothing about the regs

I think I posted a link on here a while back to the regs around the manufacture and sale of pet foods and treats.
You ought to be able to find it if you search.

(Edit: looks like @weblyish may have found it).

 

[wytonpjs]

Exactly as advised above, pet food supplies are significantly more regulated than our trained hunter/LA registration and the requirement to routinely sample products made it significantly cost negative for me.

After doing that research, I then walked past a local hardware shop (in Yate so @Cyres ) probably knows the emporium (I used to work for a timber shop they also owned 50 years ago) and there were bins and bins of various dehydrated/cooked animal extremities on sale and I was left wondering whether these were following the rules.

 

[weblyish]

Exactly as advised above, pet food supplies are significantly more regulated than our trained hunter/LA registration and the requirement to routinely sample products made it significantly cost negative for me.

After doing that research, I then walked past a local hardware shop (in Yate so @Cyres ) probably knows the emporium (I used to work for a timber shop they also owned 50 years ago) and there were bins and bins of various dehydrated/cooked animal extremities on sale and I was left wondering whether these were following the rules.

Local farmers market has the same.

Bins of pizzles, ears, trachea etc etc all sorts of creatures all sorts of treatments and I find it unlikely each product is regularly tested and sampled as described but anyway

Interesting that providing food to animals is significantly more restricted than giving it to people
I can without issue give meat to my friends to eat but if they are not big on game and decide to give it to the dog that would not seem allowed

 

[VSS]

Interesting that providing food to animals is significantly more restricted than giving it to people
I can without issue give meat to my friends to eat but if they are not big on game and decide to give it to the dog that would not seem allowed

Same anomaly with veterinary medicines.
Products produced for people only have to be safe for people.
Products produced for animals have to be safe for both animals and people.
So more regs and double the amount of testing required.

 

[Cyres]

Correct Merridiths in Yate. I will post some photos of what they sell.
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[Cyres]

Selection for sale in Yate!
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[weblyish]

Definitely compliant in all respects
I mean it might all be heat treated but do they really send in 20 samples of every batch they make for testing

 

[Klenchblaize]

Selection for sale in Yate!
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Put this pic up in "Food Porn".

Oh, and why aren't rabbit ears fetching 60p?!

K

 

[merlin]

Put this pic up in "Food Porn".

Oh, and why aren't rabbit ears fetching 60p?!

K

I tried selling four roe ears for 80p, but somebody said it was two deer...........

I'll get me coat

 

[wytonpjs]

I tried selling four roe ears for 80p, but somebody said it was two deer...........

I'll get me coat

I was getting a fiver