Animal By-Products Flashcards
Define animal by-product.
The entire body, part of an animal or a product of animal origin which is not intended for human consumption.
Once something designated as animal by-product, cannot be reversed.
In what cases do regulations not apply?
Regs do not apply to entire bodies or parts of wild animals (game) not suspected of being infected with diseases communicable to man or animals.
Also do not apply to poultry intestinal contents and so are not classes as ABPs.
What do The Animal By-Products (Enforcement) Regulations 2013 define?
What an ABP is.
Categories (1,2,3) of ABP.
Permitted options for disposal or future use of ABP.
A legal notice to be served for disposal of ABP or for cleaning and disinfection of vehicles, containers or establishments.
Staining of ABP (To stop them going back into food chain accidentally.
Storage and labelling of ABPs.
Restriction of movement of ABPs.
Why control ABPs?
To ensure:
They don’t compromise the hygienic production of meat.
They are not inadvertently or fraudulently diverted away from the disposal route back into the food chain.
Human and animal health is protected and pathogens are not inadvertently spread.
Categories of ABPs?
Risk-based
Category 1 = high risk
Category 2 = medium risk
Category 3 = low risk
- Category 3 (low risk).
- Category 2 (medium risk).
- Category 1 (high risk).
- Aesthetics – not what the consumer expects to see.
– Pet food. - Pathogenic to humans or animals.
- Includes Specified Risk Material
Category 1 definition.
All Specified Risk Material (SRM) = category 1.
Entire bodies of dead animals/carcases containing SRM (unless SRM has been removed and disposed of separately at the point of disposal.
All body parts, incl. hides and skins of animals suspected or confirmed as having a TSE (Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies).
Animal material collected from waste water drain screening in ruminant slaughterhouses and other premises in which SRM is removed.
Wild animals when suspected of being infected with diseases communicable to humans or animals.
Products derived from animals treated with substances prohibited under EC legislation or containing residues of environmental contaminants.
Mixture of category 1 with category 2 or category 3.
SRM – legislation.
The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (England) Regulations 2010.
Has amended over time.
Lays down rules for prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.
Bovine SRM.
At all ages:
- tonsils
- last 4 metres of s. intestine, caecum and mesentery. (Peyer’s patches).
> 12 months:
- as above + skull, excluding mandible, and including brain, eyes and spinal cord.
>30 months:
- Vertebral column incl. dorsal root ganglia, excluding vertebrae of tail, spinous and transverse process of cervical, thoracic and lumbar vertebrae, median sacral crest and wings of sacrum.
**devalues meat as cannot remove vertebral column w/o cutting into meat.
Defining age of bovine.
use ear tags and passports and dentition.
Ensure they both match.
If not, carcass is rejected immediately.
Bovine SRM.
Over 12 months = permanent incisor erupted.
SRM is skull (incl. eyes and brain) and spinal cord.
Staining for category 1?
Blue food-safe dye.
Must cover all cut surfaces.
By law. must be 0.5% volume conc.
Must be incinerated!
Category 2 definition.
ABP not included in category 1 or 3.
Sludge collected from 6mm waste water drain screenings in non-ruminant (pig and poultry) slaughterhouses.
Category 2 examples.
Products containing residues of vet drugs and contaminants.
Material imported from third countries or member states which does not comply w/ vet requirements of the EU.
Animals and parts of animals that die other than by being slaughtered for human consumption, including those killed for disease control purposes (unless fall into cat 1).
Manure and digestive tract contents, except for poultry intestinal contents which are exempt.
Blood from any animal which has not passed AM inspection.
PM rejects containing pathological lesions indicating disease communicable to man or animal e.g. septicaemic carcases, pneumonic lungs, Cysticercus bovis lesions, pericarditis, muscle abscesses, septic arthritic joints, TB lesions.
Whole bodies of pigs and poultry either rejected at AM inspection, DOA or found dead in the lairage.
Any carcase, part of a carcase, offal or tim which is visibly contaminated by harmful materials or by contact with any unhygienic surface e.g. faeces, stomach contents, bile, lubricants, condensation, rail debris, rust, faecal smears, floor contact.
Category 2 treatment and disposal.
Stained black and incinerated.
All pieces of cat 2 red meat weighing more than 20kg and all poultry by-products comprising entire poultry carcase must have had the solution applies after the surface has been opened by multiple and deep incisions.
