Animal by-products
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Animal by-products (ABPs) are animal carcases, parts of carcases or products of animal origin that are not intended for human consumption. 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.
Devolved administrations are responsible for ABP policy in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Questions and answers on ABPs are available here.
Information on the EU Animal
By-Products Regulation 
(1.8 MB) and the implementing legislation in England - the Animal
By-Products Regulations 2005. Includes information about enforcement
of the legislation in England.
Application
and inspection forms for ABP premises, general
approvals for certain ABP premises plus lists of approved ABP premises.
Publications & guidance
Official publications and guidance notes on ABP policy.
Catering waste and waste food of
animal origin
Information and guidance on the disposal of catering waste, raw meat &
fish, used cooking oils and
former foodstuffs of animal
origin. Includes information regarding the ban on feeding catering waste
(swill) to pigs.
Composting & biogas
Information and guidance on composting and biogas production.
Fallen stock & other animal carcases
Information and guidance on the disposal of fallen stock, as well as pets,
wild animals and horses. Includes information
on the National Fallen Stock Scheme.
Incinerators
Information and guidance on the approval and operation of high and low
capacity animal by-product incinerators, and a list of type approved low
capacity incinerators.
Other topics
Information relating to blood disposal,
hides & skins, novel
methods, SRM vertebral column and
milk processing establishments.
Latest news
13 August 2007 - Information about Foot and Mouth Disease and fallen stock is available.
27 June 2007 - Guidance on hides and skins at slaughterhouses (39 KB) has been updated.
News archive...
Page last modified:
17 August, 2007