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Pigs and Poultry: Animal Feed

Question for Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

UIN 21493, tabled on 12 April 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will open a consultation into allowing insect based protein to be fed to poultry and pigs.

Answered on

17 April 2024

Defra is committed to launching a consultation this summer on proposed changes to the livestock feed controls. These will include a proposal to allow insect processed protein in poultry and pig feed.

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