Animal By-Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 No. 495 xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
Introductory Text
PART I INTRODUCTION
1.Citation and commencement
2.Interpretation
3.Approvals, etc.
PART II COLLECTION, TRANSPORTATION, STORAGE, HANDLING, PROCESSING AND DISPOSAL OF ANIMAL BY-PRODUCTS
4.Category 1 material
5.Category 2 material
6.Category 3 material
7.Mixing mammalian and non-mammalian by-products
8.Collection, transportation and storage
PART III RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS TO ANIMAL BY-PRODUCTS AND THEIR USE
9.Access to animal by-products
10.Restrictions on use
11.Pasture land
12.Intra-species recycling of fish
PART IV APPROVED PREMISES AND COMPETENT AUTHORITIES
13.The competent authority
14.Approval of premises
15.Biogas and composting plants
16.Composting catering waste on the premises on which it originates
17.Processing and intermediate plants' own checks
18.Sampling at processing plants
19.Sampling at biogas and composting plants
20.Samples sent to laboratories
21.Laboratories
PART V PLACING ANIMAL BY-PRODUCTS AND PROCESSED PRODUCTS ON THE MARKET
22.Placing on the market of processed animal protein and other processed products that could be used as feed material
23.Placing on the market of petfood, dogchews and technical products
24.Placing on the market of compost or digestion residues for use on agricultural land
PART VI DEROGATIONS
25.Competent authority for Chapter V of the Community Regulation
26.Derogations regarding the use of animal by-products
27.Collection centres
28.Burial of pet animals
29.Burial in the event of a disease outbreak
30.Burning and burial of bees and apiculture products
PART VII RECORDS
31.Records
32.Records for consigning, transporting or receiving animal by-products
33.Records for burying or burning of animal by-products
34.Records for disposal or use on premises
35.Delivery records to be kept by operators of biogas and composting plants
36.Treatment records for biogas and composting plants
37.Records for approved laboratories
38.Records to be kept for consignments of compost or digestion residue
PART VIII ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT
39.Grant of approvals
40.Suspension, amendment and revocation of approvals and registrations
41.Appeals
42.Notice requiring the disposal of animal by-products or catering waste
43.Cleansing and disinfection
44.Compliance with notices
45.Powers of entry
46.Obstruction
47.Penalties
48.Enforcement
49.Transitional measures
50.Amendments
51.Revocations
Signature
SCHEDULE 1
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR BIOGAS AND COMPOSTING PLANTS
PART I premises
1.(1) There shall be – (a) a reception area in...
2.The animal by-products shall be unloaded in the reception area...
3.The plant shall be operated in such a way that...
4.The operator shall identify, control and monitor suitable critical points...
5.Containers, receptacles and vehicles used for transporting untreated animal by-products...
PART II treatment systems and parameters for catering waste
1.Unless an approval specifically permits a different system, catering waste...
2.The approval shall normally specify one of the methods in...
3.Composting plants
4.Biogas plants
SCHEDULE 2
TESTING METHODS
PART I method for the isolation of clostridium perfringens
1.Time of testing
2.Samples
3.Inoculations
4.Once the agar has set, each agar plate shall be...
5.Samples with colonies of Clostridium perfringens
6.In the case of each plate containing well separated colonies,...
7.If the surface area of the plates is overgrown and...
8.One characteristic colony from each plate shall be subcultured onto...
9.Subcultured colonies
Examination of subcultures
10.Motility
11.Reduction of nitrate to nitrite
12.Production of gas and acid from lactose and liquefaction of gelatine
13.The lactose gelatine medium shall be examined for colour. A...
14.The lactose gelatine medium shall be chilled for up to...
15.The presence of Clostridium perfringens shall be determined on the...
16.Control Tests
17.10 gram ± 1 gram portions of the rendered animal...
18.One colony of Clostridium perfringens (16)(a) shall be placed in...
19.These are then treated and examined in the same way...
PART II methods for the isolation of salmonella
20.A. BACTERIOLOGICAL METHOD
21.Day 1
22.Control Tests
23.10 gram ± 1 gram portions of the rendered animal...
24.One colony of Salmonella java (22)(a) shall be placed in...
25.These are then treated and examined in the same way...
26.Day 2
27.Day 3
28.The residual RVS broth shall be reincubated at 41.5°C ±...
29.Day 4
30.The reincubated RVS broth shall be plated out as described...
31.Day 5
32.The plates referred to in paragraph 30 shall be examined...
33.B. ELECTRICAL CONDUCTANCE METHOD
34.Day 1
35.Control Tests
36.10 gram ± 1 gram portions of the rendered animal...
37.One colony of Salmonella java (35)(a) shall be placed in...
38.These are then treated and examined in the same way...
39.Day 2
40.Day 3
41.Day 4
42.Day 5
PART III method for the isolation of enterobacteriaceae
43.Tests shall be begun on receipt of the sample or...
44.Samples
45.Controls
46.A 10 gram ± 1 gram portion of the rendered...
47.One colony of Escherichia coli shall be placed in 10...
48.This is then treated and examined in the same way...
49.Inoculations
50.Once the agar has set, each agar plate shall be...
51.Samples with colonies of Enterobacteriaceae
52.After counting the colonies, characteristic colonies shall be taken at...
53.Examination of subcultures
54.If not all of the colonies prove to be Enterobacteriaceae,...
SCHEDULE 3
TRANSITIONAL MEASURES
PART I transitional measures regarding the intra-species recycling ban for fish
1.In accordance with Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EC) No....
PART II the collection, transportation and disposal of former foodstuffs
1.(1) The Department shall be the competent authority for granting...
2.Collection, transport and disposal of former foodstuffs
3.Where former foodstuffs are mixed with Category 1 or Category...
4.Where former foodstuffs are sent for disposal in an approved...
5.A person who contravenes any instructions given by an inspector...
6.In this Part “former foodstuffs” does not include waste from...
PART III used cooking oil in animal feed
1.Scope
2.This Part is confined to used cooking oil which –...
3.Approvals
4.The approval shall specify – (a) the name of the...
5.(1) Approval shall be suspended immediately if the conditions under...
6.General obligations
7.Used cooking oil shall be – (a) collected by an...
8.Collection and transportation of used cooking oil
9.Approved premises and the operation of blending premises
10.(1) Before mixing with other oil, operators of blending premises...
11.Approved premises
12.Operators' own-checks
13.(1) The operator of approved blending premises shall carry out...
14.(1) The operator shall record the results of the checks...
15.Hygiene requirements in approved premises
16.Specification for used cooking oil for use in animal feed
17.Commercial documents
18.Records
19.List of premises
PART IV mammalian blood
1.General obligations
2.The Department may approve the use of processing methods 2...
3.(1) Approval shall be suspended immediately if the conditions under...
4.The approval shall only be granted if the operator was...
5.All other relevant provisions of the Community Regulation shall be...
PART V oleochemical plants using rendered fats from category 2 and category 3 materials
1.General obligations
2.(1) Approval shall be suspended immediately if the conditions under...
3.The approval shall only be granted to premises and facilities...
4.Specific requirements
PART VI low capacity incineration or co-incineration plants which do not incinerate or co-incinerate specified risk materials or carcases containing them
1.General obligations
2.(1) Approval shall be suspended immediately if the conditions under...
3.The approval shall only be granted to incinerators that were...
4.The operator shall take all necessary measures to ensure that...
5.In the case of a breakdown or malfunction, the operator...
SCHEDULE 4
AMENDMENTS TO THE TRANSMISSIBLE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY (NORTHERN IRELAND) REGULATIONS 2002
1.The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2002 are amended...
2.Regulations 33(4), 34(2) and (5), 52, 54, 56(1)(a), 56(2)(b), 56(4)(c)...
3.At the end of regulation 13 there shall be added...
4.After regulation 34 there shall be inserted – Mixing specified...
5.For regulation 40 there shall be substituted the following regulation...
6.(1) In regulations 57(3) and (5) and 60(5) the words...
7.For regulation 102(1) there shall be substituted the following regulation...
8.For Schedule 5 (Application of Part IV of the Regulations...
SCHEDULE 5
REVOCATIONS
Explanatory Note