Commission Regulation (EC) No 393/2008 of 30 April 2008 concerning the authorisation of astaxanthin dimethyldisuccinate as a feed additive (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2008-04-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: animal feedingstuffs, fish, food additive, foodstuffs legislation, market approval

L 117/20

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

1.5.2008

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 393/2008

of 30 April 2008

concerning the authorisation of astaxanthin dimethyldisuccinate as a feed additive

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

the
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 of
the Council of 22 September
European Parliament and of
2003 on additives for use in animal nutrition (1), and in
particular Article 9(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 provides for the authori-
sation of additives for use in animal nutrition and for the
grounds and procedures for granting such authorisation.

In accordance with Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No
1831/2003, an application was submitted for the autho-
risation of the preparation set out in the Annex to this
Regulation. That application was accompanied by the
particulars and documents required under Article 7(3)
of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003.

The application concerns authorisation of the preparation
of astaxanthin dimethyldisuccinate as a feed additive for
salmon and trout, to be classified in the additive category
‘sensory additives’.

The European Food Safety Authority (the Authority)
concluded in its opinion of 17 October 2007 that asta-
xanthin dimethyldisuccinate does not have an adverse
effect on animal health, human health or the environ-
ment (2). It further concluded that astaxanthin dimethyl-
disuccinate does not present any other risk which would,

in accordance with Article 5(2) of Regulation (EC) No
1831/2003, exclude authorisation. It does not consider
that there is a need for specific requirements of post
market monitoring. This opinion also verifies the report
on the method of analysis of the feed additive in feed
submitted by the Community Reference Laboratory set
up by Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003.

that preparation shows

The assessment of
the
conditions for authorisation, provided for in Article 5
of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003,
satisfied.
that preparation should be
the use of
Accordingly,
authorised, as specified in the Annex to this Regulation.

that

are

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
Standing
accordance with
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,

opinion

the

the

of

(5)

(6)

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The preparation specified in the Annex, belonging to the
additive category ‘sensory additives’ and to the functional
group ‘a(ii) Colourants; substances which when fed to animals
add colours to food of animal origin’,
is authorised as an
additive in animal nutrition subject
to the conditions laid
down in that Annex.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following
the European
that of
Union.

its publication in the Official

Journal of

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 30 April 2008.

For the Commission

Androulla VASSILIOU
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 268, 18.10.2003, p. 29. Regulation as

amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 378/2005 (OJ L 59, 5.3.2005,
p. 8).

(2) Opinion of

the Scientific Panel on Additives and Products or
Substances used in Animal Feed entitled ‘on the safety and efficacy
of Carophyll® Stay-Pink (astaxanthin dimethyldisuccinate) as a feed
additive for salmon and trout’. Adopted on 17 October 2007. The
EFSA Journal (2007) 574, p. 1-25.

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