Animal By PRoducts Flashcards
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What are animal by products?
animal carcases, parts of carcases or products of animal origin that are
not intended for human consumption
Which includes:
catering waste, used cooking oil, former foodstuffs, butcher and slaughterhouse waste, blood, feathers, wool, hides and skins, fallen stock, pet animals, zoo and circus animals, hunt trophies, manure, ova, embryos and semen, faeces
What tells you something is safe to eat?
Health mark
unique to establishment that has packaged the product. Tell you passed inspection and supervised by FSA
Do Butcher’s have health marks to tell you something is safe to eat?
No local health authorities do this
What is dressing %?
ratio of dressed carcass weight to weight of the live animal expressed s a %
What is the highest risk animal by products?
Specified risk material = TSEs
What are TSEs?
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) or prion diseases are a family of rare progressive neurodegenerative brain disorders that affect both humans and animals.
= BSE cows and scrapie sheep and goats related material
What member states have controlled risk of BSE
England, wales, ROI, France, Greece, Scotland
In member states with controlled risk of BSE, what is SRM?
Cattle all ages
Over 12 months
Over 30 months
Cattle of all ages: 1. tonsils 2. last 4 metres SI 3. Caecum 4. Mesentery to do with lymphoid tissue: SI = payers patches
Over 12 months
Skull including brain, eyes, spinal cord, excluding mandible (masseter, ox cheek = human consumption)
Over 30 months:
Vertebral column including dorsal root ganglia, excluding:
Vertebrae of tail, spinous and transverse process of cervical, thoracic and lumbar vertebrae
- median sacral crest and wings of the sacrum
What is SRM in member states with negligible risk of BSE?
Only over 12 months, not under:
Skull, excluding mandible including brain, eyes, spinal cord,
• Sheep specified risk material
SCRAPIE
o Over 12 months
Skull including brain, eyes, spinal cord, tonsils
Doesn’t include horns
Before 12 months head can be used for human consumption
Who is responsible for ABP enforcement relating to ABP within approved slaughterhouses and cutting plants?
Food Standards Agency
Role of the Specified Risk material regulations 1997?
o Controls abattoirs for identification, removal and disposal of designated risk material from carcases
Role of animal by product order 1999
o Introduced testing for enterobacteria risks
Rules with regards to ABP
Risk based: split into 3 categories, with different treatments depending on the level of risk
There must be licences for establishments that handle ABP and for equipment that destroys it.
Rules for movement and international trade
Enforcement of these rules is by vets and local authorities (FSA, APHA
TSE’s regulations 2002/2006
o Offence to allow access of ruminant animals to ruminant carcases
What comes under Category 1 Animal By products
- specified risk material, and where, at the time of disposal, specified risk material has not been
removed, entire bodies of dead animals containing specified risk material; - products derived from animals to which substances prohibited .. have been administered and products
of animal origin containing residues of environmental contaminants - All body parts, including hides and skins, of the following animals:
(i) animals infected or suspected of being infected by a TSE
(ii) animals killed in the context of TSE eradication measures,
(iii) animals other than farmed animals and wild animals, including in particular pet animals, zoo animals and circus animals,
(iv) experimental animals and
(v) wild animals, when suspected of being infected with diseases communicable to humans or animals;
-all animal material collected when treating waste water
from Category 1 processing plants e.g. that collected from grids and drains
- all animal material collected when treating waste water
from Category 1 processing plants
- Any material where cat 1 material has contaminated
What do we do with Cat 1 waste?
- Incineration in licensed incinerators and the ash disposed in specially
licensed landfills - Rendering with all products marked with glyceroltriheptanoate (GTH) = blue stain
What comes under Category 2 Animal By products
- manure and digestive tract content;
▪ all animal materials collected when treating
waste water from slaughterhouses that don’t contain CAT 1
▪ products containing residues of
veterinary drugs and contaminants (unless they
are Cat 1) - products of animal origin, other than Category 1 material, that are imported from non-
member countries and, in the course of the inspections provided for in Community
legislation, fail to comply with the veterinary requirements; - animals and parts of animals, other than those referred to in Article 4, that die other than
by being slaughtered for human consumption, including animals killed to eradicate an
epizootic disease; - mixtures of Category 2 material with Category 3 material, including any material destined
for processing in a Category 2 processing plant; and
-animal by-products other than Category 1 material or Category 3 material.
What do we do with Cat 2 material?
Incineration in licensed incinerators and the ash disposed in specially licensed landfills
Rendering with all products marked with glyceroltriheptanoate (GTH) = balck stain
- Hunt kennels, maggot farms and zoos
What is Cat 3
o Parts of slaughtered animals, which are fit for human consumption but are not intended for human consumption for commercial reasons
o Parts of slaughtered animals, which are rejected as unfit for human consumption but are not affected by any signs of diseases communicable to humans or animals and derive from carcases that are fit for human consumption
o Hides and skins, hooves and horns, pig bristles and feathers originating from animals that are slaughtered in a slaughterhouse, after undergoing ante-mortem inspection, and were fit for human consumption
o Blood from non-ruminants
o Raw milk
o Fish for fishmeal production
Where can cat 3 be found?
Abattoirs (if they do not sell lungs for example) Butcher’s waste Fish manufacturing Dairies Egg packing
What do we do with cat 3 waste?
Petfood Composting and biogas Oleochemical plants Hunt kennels, maggot farms and zoos Special derogations for remote areas
Summary of Cat 1, 2, 3
Cat 1: Anything that has to do with TSEs, whole ruminant carcasses plus zoo animals and pets,
sick wild animals and certain residue containing products, international catering waste
Cat 2: All meat unfit for human consumption except if it has to do with TSEs, manure and
digestive tract contents, some residue containing products, animals killed for disease control
Cat 3: Meat fit for human consumption but not intended for human consumption, all by-
products from animals that have undergone inspection and were found fit with some
exceptions
What cat does Raw meat as pet food come under?
CAT 3
