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Official Journal of the European Union
16.4.2011
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 371/2011
of 15 April 2011
concerning the authorisation of dimethylglycine sodium salt as feed additive for chickens for
fattening (holder of the authorisation Taminco N.V.)
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
animal health, consumer health or the environment, and
that this additive has the potential to significantly
improve body weight gain and feed to gain ratio in
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
chickens for fattening. The Authority does not consider
Union,
that there is a need for specific requirements of post-
market monitoring. It also verified the report on the
method of analysis of the feed additive in feed
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 of the
submitted by the European Union Reference Laboratory
European Parliament and of the Council of 22 September
for Feed Additives set up by Regulation (EC)
2003 on additives for use in animal nutrition ( 1 ), and in
No 1831/2003.
particular Article 9(2) thereof,
Whereas:
(5) The
assessment
of
dimethylglycine
sodium
salt
shows

that the conditions for authorisation, as provided for in
Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003, are satisfied.
(1) Regulation
(EC)
No
1831/2003
provides
for
the
auth
Accordingly, the use of this preparation should be auth
orisation of additives for use in animal nutrition and
orised as specified in the Annex to this Regulation.
for the grounds and procedures for granting such auth
orisation.
(6) The
measures
provided
for
in
this
Regulation
are
in
accordance with the opinion of the Standing
(2) In
accordance
with
Article
7
of
Regulation
(EC)
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,
No 1831/2003, an application was submitted for the
authorisation of dimethylglycine sodium salt. That appli
cation was accompanied by the particulars and
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
documents required under Article 7(3) of Regulation
(EC) No 1831/2003.
Article 1
The preparation specified in the Annex, belonging to the
(3) The
application
concerns
the
authorisation
of
dimethyl
additive category ‘zootechnical additives’ and to the functional
glycine sodium salt as a feed additive for chickens for
group ‘other zootechnical additives’, is authorised as an additive
fattening, to be classified in the additive category
in animal nutrition subject to the conditions laid down in that
‘zootechnical additives’.
Annex.
(4) The
European
Food
Safety
Authority
(‘the
Authority’)
Article 2
concluded in its opinion of 7 December 2010 ( 2 ) that
dimethylglycine sodium salt, under the proposed
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following
conditions of use, does not have an adverse effect on
its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 15 April 2011.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO
( 1 ) OJ L 268, 18.10.2003, p. 29.
( 2 ) EFSA Journal (2011); 9(1):1950.

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ANNEX
Minimum
Maximum
Identification
Species or
content
content
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number of the Name of the holder of
category of
Maximum age
Other provisions
of
additive
authorisation
Additive
Composition, chemical formula, description,
analytical method
animal
mg/kg of complete feedingstuff
authorisation
with a moisture content of 12 %
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Category of zootechnical additives. Functional group: other zootechnical additives (improvement of zootechnical parameters)
4d4 Taminco
N.V. Dimethylglycine
Additive composition
Chickens for
— 1
000 1.
For
safety:
glasses
and
6 May 2021
sodium salt
Dimethylglycine sodium salt with a fattening
gloves shall be used
purity of at least 97 %
during handling.
2. Minimum recommended
Active substance
dose: 1
000
mg/kg of
Sodium N,N-dimethylglycine
complete feedingstuff
C 4H 8NO 2Na, produced by chemical
with a moisture content
synthesis.
of 12 %.
icial
Analytical methods (1 )
Jour
For the determination of the active
substance in the additive and
nal
premixtures: liquid chromatography
of
(HPLC) with diode array detection
the
(DAD), detection at 193 nm.
For the determination of the active
European
substance in feedingstuffs: gas chroma
tography (GC) using pre-column deri
vatisation and flame ionisation
detection (FID).
Union
(1 ) Details of the analytical methods are available at the following address of the European Union Reference Laboratory for Feed Additives: www.irmm.jrc.be/eurl-feed-additives
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