Animal by-products Flashcards
(34 cards)
What is the purpose of a health mark?
Health mark is unique to the establishment that has packaged the product
- Tells you that it has passed the inspection and it is safe to eat
What are animal by-products
Animal carcases, parts of carcases or products of animal origin that are not intended for human consumption e.g. faeces, pathology, bones
- This 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.
What is the dressing percentage?
Ratio of dressed carcass weight to the weight of the live animal, expressed as a percentage
What are some specialised risk materials of cattle with controlled risk of BSE at all ages?
- Tonsils
- The last 4m of SI
- The caecum
- Mesentery
What are some specialised risk materials of cattle with controlled risk of BSE over 12 months?
Skull excluding the mandible but including the brain, eyes and spinal cord
What are some specialised risk materials of cattle with controlled risk of BSE over 30 months?
- Vertebrae of the tail
- Spinous and transverse process of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar vertebrae
- Median sacral crest and wings of the sacrum
What are some specialised risk materials of cattle with negligible risk of BSE under 12 months?
No specialised risk material
What are some uses of ABPs?
Pet food, clothing e.g. leather, sodium tallowate, glues
Where are ABPs found?
- Abattoirs that slaughter ruminants
- Farms (fallen stock)
- Knackers’ yards (Officially termed “collection centres”) if they handle ruminants
- Airports and ports
- Zoos and circuses
- Labs
What are the rules surrounding ABPs?
- Risk based: 3 categories with different treatment depending on the level of risk
- Licences for establishments that handle ABP and for equipment that destroys ABP
- Rules for movement and international trade
- Enforcement of rules by vets and Local Authorities (FSA, APHA)
Who is responsible for enforcement relating to ABP within approved slaughterhouses and cutting plants (where meat is chopped up and packaged)?
Food standards agency
Who is responsible for ABPs elsewhere?
Local authorities
What are the roles of OVs in ABP treatment plans?
Risk assessment of premises for approval:
- Risk category of ABPs accepted / handled by plant
- Method of processing & safe parameters of operation
- Biosecurity risks – eg proximity of livestock to approved premises
- Management of records & traceability
What was made an offence under the Dog act of 1906?
An offence for leaving any carcass on agricultural land where dogs can gain access.
Since 2003 what must happen to all fallen stock?
- Ban on burial of fallen stock since 2003
- All carcasses of cattle over 24 months of age must go on the fallen stock and be tested for TSE as part of survey scheme
What is a category 1 ABP?
- 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
- Animals infected or suspected of being infected by a TSE
- Pet animals, zoo animals and circus animals
- Experimental animals
What happens to category 1 ABPs?
- Incineration in licensed incinerators and the ash disposed in specially licensed landfills
- Rendering with all products marked with glyceroltriheptanoate (GTH)
- Special landfills for catering waste
- Special derogations for remote areas
- Has to be stained a nice blue… (patent blue V E131 an approved food additive)
What is a category 2 ABP?
- Manure and digestive tract content
- All animal materials collected when treating waste water from slaughterhouses
- Products of animal origin containing residues of veterinary drugs and contaminants
- Animals and parts of animals, that die other than by being slaughtered for human consumption, including animals killed to eradicate an epizootic disease
What happens to category 2 ABPs?
- Incineration in licensed incinerators and the ash disposed in specially licensed landfills
- Rendering with all products marked with glyceroltriheptanoate (GTH)
- Has to be stained black (though it may look blue-gray…)
- Manure can go on land
- Oleochemical plants
- Hunt kennels, maggot farms and zoos
What is a category 3 ABP?
- Parts of slaughtered animals, which are fit for human consumption but are not intended for human consumption for commercial reasons
- Parts of slaughtered animals, which are rejected as unfit for human consumption but are not affected by any signs of diseases
- Hides and skins, hooves and horns, pig bristles and feathers, from animals after undergoing ante-mortem inspection, and were fit
- Blood obtained from animals other than ruminants
- Former foodstuffs of animal origin
- Raw milk originating from animals that do not show clinical signs of any disease
- Fish or other sea animals, except sea mammals
What happens to category 3 ABPs?
- PETFOOD
- Composting and biogas
- Oleochemical plants
- Hunt kennels, maggot farms and zoos
Summarise a cat 1 ABP
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
Summarise a cat 2 ABP
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
Summarise a cat 3 ABP
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
