asked the Minister for Agriculture if he will state what steps he proposes taking to ensure that all wheat and barley offals will be available directly for animal feeding at reasonable prices and not used for the manufacture of compounds, where oat hulls and other adulterants may be admixed and sold at excessive prices; and if he will consider in the case of compound feeding stuffs making it obligatory on manufacturers to declare analysis and composition of such compounds.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Offals for Animal Feeding.
The question of how wheat and barley offals, when available, may be disposed of to the best advantage is at present under consideration. With regard to the second part of the question, every manufacturer of compound feeding stuffs is required by the licence granted to him under the Emergency Powers (Feeding Stuffs) Orders to insert in the container in which the feeding stuff is sold a statement setting out the percentages of oil, albuminoids and fibre in the feeding stuff. Every licence specifies the composition of the feeding stuff to which it relates and the composition cannot be changed without my approval.
Is the Minister satisfied that the manufacturers are not in a position to use, under the regulations set out by the Department, oat hulls and other adulterants of that sort?
No. As the Deputy will learn from the answer to the question, they must get a licence to manufacture any particular foodstuff, and they must state what is in it.
Do they state what the composition is?
They must set out the analysis. Unless the analysis and the price are satisfactory, they will not get a licence.