Animal by-products: Hides and skins
Hides and skins from animals (except wild animals) are controlled under the Animal By-Products Regulation (ABPR). Hides and skins from farmed animals will usually be classed as Category 3 animal by-products, unless they are from animals that showed signs of communicable disease.
Storage of hides & skins at slaughterhouses
This guidance note 
(26 KB) explains the requirements for storage of hides and skins at slaughterhouses,
and the circumstances under which the storage of hides and skins requires
an ABPR approval.
On-farm salting of hides & skins
Defra have issued a general approval
for on-farm intermediate plants
(21 KB), which permits livestock owners to salt hides and skins that originate
from the same premises.
We have also issued a guidance note
for on-farm intermediate plants
(25 KB) to explain the standards which must be met by such operations.
Hides and skins must be accompanied by a commercial
document
(15 KB) during transport. We have provided a draft commercial document
for transport of Category 3 hides and skins. Alternative templates may
be used, providing they include all the information required under Annex
II of Regulation (EC) No. 1774/2002.
Page last modified:
June 9, 2008