Nutreco
Nutreco is a global leader in animal nutrition and aquafeed.
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Lobbying Activity
Meeting with Bert-Jan Ruissen (Member of the European Parliament)
3 Sept 2025 · AGRI
Meeting with Bert-Jan Ruissen (Member of the European Parliament)
13 Dec 2024 · Diervoeding
Response to Update of list of sustainable biofuel feedstocks
2 Jan 2023
Nutreco acknowledges the EU's ambitions in the area of renewable energy as one of the ways to achieve carbon neutrality in 2050. We appreciate at the same time that, as a matter of principle, the food waste hierarchy is being followed. According to this approach, use as food has the highest priority, followed by use in animal nutrition and only when this is not acceptable, other uses like production of biofuel. However, we identified that three of the proposed feedstocks, which are also used as feed materials do not yet bear the condition not fit for use in the food and feed chain in the Annex to the proposed Delegated directive. For the potential use in animal feed we refer to the applicable entries in the Catalogue of feed materials (Regulation (EU) 2022/1104 amending Regulation (EU) No 68/2013). These entries are: Part B; entry h - Liquid whey permeate (Feed material catalogue entry 8.21.1) Part B; entry i - Deoiled olive pomace (Feed material catalogue entry 2.11.1) Part B; entry n - Vinasse excluding thin stillage and sugarbeet vinasse (Feed material catalogue entry 12.3.1) E.g., certain grades of liquid whey permeate are valuable sources for production of high quality feed products intended for young animals. We therefore propose the addition of not fit for use in the food and feed chain in the description of these three entries. Besides, we plead for sufficient guarantees in the legislation for the proper implementation of the priorities of the food waste hierarchy, where applicable.
Read full responseResponse to Food waste reduction targets
29 Oct 2021
Nutreco fully supports the ambitions of the European Commission to reduce food waste along the food chain by 50% in 2030. This contributes to reduction of overall GHG emissions and supports the deployment of a sustainable European bio-economy. We ask attention for the following points:
• It may not be helpful to consider these streams as ‘waste’ both from communication as well as regulatory point of view. Pressed by both EU’s net protein shortage (which triggers extensive imports of protein, for example soya from third countries) as well as the Commission’s ambition to become more circular, we strongly recommend a paradigm shift where these streams are considered valuable resources for further processing, and not waste. From regulatory angle, there should be keen attention on facilitating a reclassification as feed (or even food) also when the by-stream has temporarily had a ‘waste’ status. An example of this is the possibility to extract valuable nutrients for feed or food from expired retail dairy products which at this moment end up in the wastewater processing of dairy food companies that are supposed to take their expired products back.
• In order to be able to use by-streams of food production as feedstock for high value production processes like animal nutrition and human food, it is of utmost important to manage microbial quality. Dangerous microbial contamination and associated fermentation processes that degrade valuable nutrients are the primary risk for (semi-)moist by-streams from the food industry. If these processes are not managed well, the only resort for such streams is the downgrading to substrate for biogas production. Thus, effective preservation of these streams is probably the most effective single measure to upgrade it to high value resources for feed and food. It is recommended, therefore, to set standards in future legislation on microbiological quality of these by-streams for an optimized contribution to a circular bio-economy.
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