Information Package / Course Catalogue
Legislation of Commercial Feeds
Course Code: VHB634
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: Third Cycle (Doctorate Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 2
Prt.: 0
Credit: 2
Lab: 0
ECTS: 4
Objectives of the Course

Preparation of feeds for enhancing productive performance of animals. Providing rational feeding to animals. Production, export, import delivering, selling procedures of feeds regulated by legal legislations. Chemical composition of feeds must be required according to it specifications. Teaching basic legal legislations about feeds. Giving information about the legal legislations in Turkey and Europe. Giving information about compounds giving harml to animal health. Raising experts knowing mistakes and their correction in feed production and feeding. Giving information about feed production and marketing. Technical and economical mistakes occurred in feed factories. Easy providing of feeds with balanced prices and constant norms and standards.

Course Content

Basic terms about feed legislation. Legal legislations on feeds used in animal nutrition. Recent status legal legislations on feeds used in Turkey. Recent status legal legislations on feeds used in European countries. Legal legislations on antinutritional compounds detrimental to animal health and nutrition. Recommendations to producers for preventing mistakes in animal and feed production

Name of Lecturer(s)
Assoc. Prof. Ömer SEVİM
Learning Outcomes
1.Knowing feed preparation, marketing, export and import for providing proper animal nutrition and enhanced animal production.
2.Knowing basic information about feed legislation and legal legislation feeds used in animal nutrition.
3.Recent status of legal feed legislation in Turkey and Europe.
4.Giving information about correction of mistakes done in animal nutrition and feed production.
5.Giving information about registration and decleration of feeds.
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Tarım ve Köy İşleri Bakanlığı Koruma ve Kontrol Genel Müdürlüğü (2011) Yem Yönetmeliği, Erişim: http://www.kkgm.gov.tr/yonetmelik/yem.html
2.Coşkun, B., Şeker, E., İnal, F. (2000) Yemler ve Teknolojisi, Selçuk Üniversitesi Veteriner Fakültesi Yayın Ünitesi, Konya.
3.Ergün, A., Tuncer, Ş.D., Çolpan, İ., Yalçın, S., Yıldız, G., Küçükersan, M.K., Küçükersan, S., Şehu, A. (2004) Yemler, Yem Hijyeni ve Teknolojisi, Pozitif Matbaacılık, Ankara.
4.Kellerns, R.O., Church, D.C. (2002) Livestock Feeds and Feeding, Prentice Hall, New Jersey.
5.Sauvant, D., Perez, J.M., Tran, G. (2004) Tables of Composition and Nutritional Value of Feed Materials, INRA Editions, Wageningen Academic Publishers.
6.Wiseman, J., Cole, D.J.A. (1990) Feedstuff Evaluation, Cambridge University Press, Great Britain.
7.Yavuz, H.M. (2001) Çiftlik Hayvanlarının Beslenmesinde Temel Prensipler, Hilal Yayınevi, İstanbul.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Giving basic information about feed legislation. Definitions and classifications about feed legislation.
Week 2 - Theoretical
Giving information about legislations on feed production.
Week 3 - Theoretical
Giving information about legislations on feed import.
Week 4 - Theoretical
Giving information about legislations on feed export.
Week 5 - Theoretical
Giving information about legislations on feed marketing.
Week 6 - Theoretical
Giving information about required quality characteristics.
Week 7 - Theoretical
Sharing recommendations on mistakes seen in feed and animal production with feed producers and animal producers (Midterm exam)
Week 8 - Theoretical
Legal legislations on feeds in Turkey.
Week 9 - Theoretical
Legal legislations on feeds in Europe.
Week 10 - Theoretical
Legal legislations on feeds in World.
Week 11 - Theoretical
Giving information about registration and decleration of feeds.
Week 12 - Theoretical
Giving information about legislations on detrimental compounds in animal feeding.
Week 13 - Theoretical
Giving information about legislations on detrimental compounds exist in feedstuffs.
Week 14 - Theoretical
Giving information about legislations on genetically modified organisms (GMO) found in feedstuffs.
Week 15 - Final Exam
Final exam
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%30
Final Examination1%70
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory140114
Assignment501050
Midterm Examination114115
Final Examination120121
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)100
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
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