additive in animal feedstuffs | feedingstuffs additive

They should also inform the European Commission and other Member States on the substance in question through the EU's Rapid Alert System for food and feed (RASFF).

A record shall be kept of the quantity and type of substance added, and the identification of the company or technician who performed the servicing and maintenance.

Additives are substances used for a variety of reasons -such as preservation, colouring, sweetening, etc.- during the preparation of food. The European Union legislation defines them as " any substance not normally consumed as a food in itself and not normally used as a characteristic ingredient of food, whether or not it has nutritive value, the intentional addition of which to food for a technological purpose in the manufacture, processing, preparation, treatment, packaging, transport or storage of such food results, or may be reasonably expected to result, in it or its by-products becoming directly or indirectly a component of such fo ...[+++]ods".

5". carriers', are substances used to dissolve, dilute, disperse or otherwise physically modify a food additive or a flavouring, food enzyme nutrient and/or other substance added for nutritional or physiological purposes to a foodstuff (or food and/or food supplement) without altering its function (and without exerting any technological effect themselves) in order to facilitate its handling, application or use;