Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

Rendering plants

Delivery of specified risk material to rendering plants

65.—(1) Any person delivering specified risk material to an approved rendering plant shall state in writing to the operator of that rendering plant the place from which that specified risk material was collected for delivery to that rendering plant.

(2) A person shall not take delivery of specified risk material at a rendering plant, or operate a rendering plant for specified risk material, unless at the time of the delivery the plant is approved under this Part as having the facilities specified in Part I of Schedule 6 sufficient to enable it to render the specified risk material by one of the methods specified in Part II of that Schedule.

(3) The operator of an approved rendering plant shall ensure that all containers, receptacles and vehicles which have been used for the transport of specified risk material are cleaned, washed and disinfected before they leave the premises.

Storage etc. of specified risk material at rendering plants

66.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), and without prejudice to the storage requirements of regulation 53, the operator of an approved rendering plant shall ensure that all specified risk material in the rendering plant is kept and stored separately from all other material, handled separately from other material and rendered separately from other material.

(2) The operator of an approved rendering plant may keep, handle, store or render specified risk material at the plant together with other material at the plant provided –

(a) all of that material is kept, handled, stored and rendered at the plant in accordance with the requirements of these Regulations applying to specified risk material; and

(b) the operator keeps a record for two years of the exact quantity of the specified risk material and the other material together with which the specified risk material is kept, handled, stored and rendered.

(3) For the purposes of this Part, references to specified risk material shall include references to any –

(a) specified risk material kept, handled, stored or rendered together with other material; and

(b) any other material together with which the specified risk material is kept, handled, stored or rendered.

Rendering of specified risk material

67.—(1) The operator of an approved rendering plant shall ensure that specified risk material is processed without undue delay and in any event within seven days of delivery using one of the methods described in Part II of Schedule 6.

(2) A person shall not move from the unclean section of an approved rendering plant, as so specified by the occupier in accordance with paragraph 3 of Part I of Schedule 6, into the clean section as so specified without first changing his working clothes and footwear and disinfecting the latter.

(3) The operator of an approved rendering plant shall ensure (except as provided by paragraph (4)) that any equipment used for processing specified risk material is used only for that purpose.

(4) Subject to paragraph (5), the Department may, on application by the operator of an approved rendering plant, consent to the use for other purposes of equipment previously used for processing specified risk material.

(5) A consent given under paragraph (4) shall not be effective until the Department has indicated in writing that it is satisfied that the equipment concerned has been cleaned in accordance with any conditions specified in that consent.

(6) A person shall not take equipment or utensils from the unclean section into the clean section of an approved rendering plant unless they are first washed and disinfected.

(7) The operator of an approved rendering plant shall ensure that systematic measures are taken to control birds, rodents, insects and other vermin on the premises.

(8) The operator of an approved rendering plant shall ensure that the premises and any equipment on the premises are kept in a good state of repair and that measuring equipment is regularly calibrated.

Rendered material

68.—(1) After any specified risk material has been rendered at an approved rendering plant the operator of the plant shall ensure that –

(a) all protein is placed in a container labelled “specified risk material” and disposed of –

(i) by burial at a landfill site for which there exists a current disposal licence granted under Article 7 of the Pollution Control and Local Government (Northern Ireland) Order 1978;

(ii) as specified in the approval; or

(iii) by sending to an approved incinerator.

(b) all tallow is placed in a container labelled “specified risk material” and disposed of –

(i) by burial at a landfill site for which there exists a current disposal licence granted under Article 7 of the Pollution Control and Local Government (Northern Ireland) Order 1978;

(ii) as specified in the approval; or

(iii) by incineration at an approved incinerator, or an approved boiler.

(2) An operator of an approved rendering plant shall ensure that no rendered material produced from any specified risk material –

(a) is consigned from the plant for disposal by burial; or

(b) is disposed of by burial,

unless the specified risk material has been processed at the plant in accordance with method 4 prescribed in Part II of Schedule 6.

(3) Protein rendered from animal material, other than specified risk material from scheme animals, shall be disposed of by incineration at an approved incinerator.

(4) Tallow rendered from animal material, other than specified risk material from scheme animals, shall be disposed of by incineration at an approved incinerator or approved boiler.