Processed Animal Protein Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Regulations 6, 10(2)(e) and (6)(e) and 11(1)(e) and (5)(e)

SCHEDULE 2 Conditions for the production of dicalcium phosphate for feeding to farmed animals other than ruminants

1.  Dicalcium phosphate for feeding to farmed animals other than ruminants shall be produced from defatted bones.

2.  The dicalcium phosphate shall be derived from bones fit for human consumption following ante- and post-mortem inspection.

3.  The dicalcium phosphate shall be produced by a process which ensures that all bone material is finely crushed and degreased with hot water and treated with dilute hydrochloric acid (at a minimum concentration of 4% and pH < 1.5) over a period of at least two days followed by a treatment of the obtained phosphoric liquor with lime, resulting in a precipitate of dicalcium phosphate at pH 4 to 7, which is finally air dried with inlet temperature of 65°C — 325°C and end temperature between 30°C — 65°C or by an equivalent process approved in accordance with the procedure of Article 17 of Council Directive 89/662/EEC(1) concerning veterinary checks in intra-Community trade with a view to the completion of the internal market.

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O.J. No. L395, 30.12.1989, p. 13, as last amended by Directive 1992/118/EEC (O.J. No. L62, 15.3.1993, p. 49)