National Enforcement Priorities for animal feed and food hygiene
Published 6 December 2017
Applies to England, Northern Ireland and Wales
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The National Enforcement Priorities for 2025-26 were developed in consultation with National Trading Standards (NTS) and the National Agriculture Panel (NAP) members.
1. Objectives
Incorporating the NEPs into a programme of official controls helps drive compliance by Feed Business Operators (FeBOs) through enforcement.
The objectives of the priorities are to:
- drive an intelligence led approach to official controls, focusing resources on higher risk and non-compliant business, placing an increased focus on outcomes
- maintain a level playing field for honest and diligent food and feed businesses, which is in the interests of industry as a whole
- reduce unnecessary burdens on business by focusing LA activity on agreed areas of greatest threat to public and animal health
- create a flexible and intelligence-led approach to interventions, placing an increased focus on outcomes
- realise our strategic goal of ‘Food We Can Trust (Opens in a new window)’ and drive up the quality and consistency of official controls
Legislation and guidance to support local authorities to embed these priorities within their annual plan of official feed and food controls, can be found within the NEPs documents.
1.1 England and Wales
View National Enforcement Priorities for England and Wales 2025-26 as Word (173.35 KB)
1.2 Northern Ireland
View National Enforcement Priorities for NI 2025-26as PDF (264.29 KB)