The Ministry of Health has prepared and published the National Official Control Plan on Animal Nutrition (Pnaa) 2024-2026 , already sent to the competent regional authorities and official laboratories, which replaces the previous three-year Pnaa plan 2021-2023.
The National Animal Nutrition Plan has the aim of contributing, through the supervision and control of feed, to ensuring the healthiness of products of animal origin intended for human consumption .
The PNAA is implemented through inspections and through the collection and analysis of samples of feed and drinking water, taken along the entire supply chain.
In the samples taken, a search is carried out for:
Processed animal proteins not allowed in feed
Salmonella spp.
Pharmacologically active ingredients and additives
Undesirable substances and environmental contaminants (mycotoxins, dioxins, melamine and others)
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs)
In the event of non-compliance or positivity, appropriate interventions are implemented to protect public health as required by current legislation.
Inspection supervision is carried out on all companies in the feed sector such as:
primary production
farms
feed mills
distributors
food industries that supply by-products to animal feed
feed transporters
The application of the plan at a territorial level is entrusted to the autonomous Regions/Provinces and is implemented by the local health authorities , the experimental zooprophylactic institutes carry out the official analyzes and the peripheral offices of the Ministry of Health carry out the official controls on feed imported from third countries.
The Plan has been updated on the basis of risk criteria that take into account the results of previous years of application, community alerts , regulatory developments and new official control needs and will be valid until 31 December 2026.
The updated forms attached to the Pnaa are also available online .