An Expert Working Group under the umbrella of the International Cooperation for Convergence of Technical Requirements for the Assessment of Feed Ingredients (ICCF), composed of experts drawn from the ICCF founding members, has developed a new guidance document on Feed Ingredient Environmental Risk Assessment (Phase 2).

The ICCF Steering Committee adopted the draft Guidance Document for Public Consultation on October 8, 2024. The public consultation is now open and interested stakeholders are invited to provide their comments on the document using the feedback form available by November 8, 2024.

The draft guidance document provides recommendations to applicants for evaluating further the risk of feed ingredients to the environment, when fed to terrestrial animals, when appropriate, after the initial evaluation based on the Guidance Document on Feed ingredient Environmental Risk Assessment Approach published in 2023. It provides an approach to refine the environmental exposure to the feed ingredient’s constituents and their metabolites. As appropriate, it describes the necessary studies for estimating the concentration of the feed ingredient’s constituents that do not impact the environment. Based on the quotient ratio (ratio of exposure to concentration with no impact), the risk of the feed ingredient is assessed.

The draft ICCF Guidance document and feedback form can be downloaded here.