1. Animal by-products must be rendered as soon as possible after arrival and shall be stored properly until rendered.
2. Containers, receptacles and vehicles used for the transport of unrendered material must be cleaned, washed and disinfected after each use.
3. Persons must not enter the clean section from the unclean section without changing their working clothes and footwear or without disinfecting the latter. Equipment and utensils shall not be taken from the unclean section into the clean section. 1373.09
4. Waste water originating in the unclean section must be treated to ensure that no pathogens remain.
5. Preventative measures against birds, rodents, insects or other vermin must be taken systematically.
6. Rendering must be carried out either:
(i) so that
(a)material must be heated to a core temperature of at least 133°C for 20 minutes at a pressure of 3 bar. The particle size of the raw material prior to processing must be reduced to at least 50 mm by means of a prebreaker or grinder;
(b)recording thermographs must be provided at the critical points of the heating process to monitor the heat treatment; or
(ii) using any of the systems of heat treatment described in Commission Decision 92/562/EEC(1) subject to the conditions contained in that Decision.
7. Installations and equipment must be kept in a good state of repair and measuring equipment must be calibrated at regular intervals.
8. The finished products must be handled and stored at the premises in such a way as to preclude recontamination.
9. Hides must be salted using sodium chloride.
OJ No. L359, 9.12.92, p.23.