The Animal By-Products (Amendment) Order 1996

Approval of animal by-products rendering premises

10.  Schedule 4 to the principal Order shall be amended—

(a) by inserting in paragraph 6(ii) of Section B of Part I after the words “in Commission Decision No 92/562/EEC” the words “as amended(1) and as read, in the case of animal by-products of ruminant origin, with Commission Decision No 94/382/EC on the approval of alternative heat treatment systems for processing animal waste of ruminant origin, with a view to the inactivation of spongiform encephalopathy agents(2), as amended(3)”, and

(b) by adding at the end of Section B of Part II the following paragraph—

“9.   In the case of animal by-products of ruminant origin rendering must be carried out either:

(i) so that

(a) material is 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; and

(b) recording thermographs are 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 No 92/562/EEC, as amended and as read with Commission Decision No 94/382/EC as amended.”.

(1)

Commission Decision No 92/562/EEC on the approval of alternative heat treatment systems for processing high-risk material was amended, in respect of aquatic animals, by item 27 of Chapter 5 of Part E of Section V of Annex 1 to the Decision of the Council of the European Union adjusting the instruments concerning the accession of new Member States to the European Union (OJ No L 1, 1.1.95, p. 100).

(2)

OJ No L 172, 7.7.94, p. 25.

(3)

By Commission Decision No 95/29/EC (OJ No L 38, 18.2.95, p. 17).