(15)In its recommendations on the use of calcium propionate as a preservative and as feed intended for particular nutritional purposes20, EGTOP did not recommend its inclusion as a feed additive, with the justification that calcium chloride can be used for particular nutritional purposes and that calcium propionate is not to be used as a preservative. However, calcium propionate is absorbed more slowly than calcium chloride and will prevent the irritating effects when only using calcium chloride. In the table in Part B, entry ‘60’, of the Annex to Regulation (EU) 2020/354, calcium propionate is listed as feed intended for particular nutritional purposes. Pursuant to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/415note, calcium propionate is a feed additive. Calcium propionate should therefore be listed as an authorised feed additive in Annex III to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1165, provided that it is used only as feed intended for particular nutritional purposes.
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