. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/EEC/103/Add.18 
31 July 2007  
 (07-3257) 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
 
   
NOTIFICATION  
 
Addendum
 
 
 
The following communication, received on 25 July 2007, is being circulated at the request of 
the Delegation of European Communities . 
 
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Animal by-products and products derived therefrom not intended for human consumption:  processing 
of milk and milk products intended for feeding  
 
Regulation (EC) No. 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 October 
2002 laying down health rules concerning animal  by-products not intended for human consumption  
(O J L273, 10 October 2002 pp. 1-95, notified in G/SPS/N/EEC/103, 24 November 2000) provides for 
rules concerning the means of disposal and uses of animal by-products, including milk for animal 
feed. 
 
In view of the large sums of money invested  in eradicating foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) 
following the outbreak in 2001, and with a view to preserve the status of free from FMD, any milk 
imported into the European Commun ities for feeding animals must follow a treatment of 72°C for 15 
seconds followed by desiccation or acidification (1 hour at a pH below 6).  
The regulatory proposal notified hereby " Draft Commission Regulation amending Annexes 
VII, X and XI to Regulation (EC) No. 1774/2002 of  the European Parliament and of the Council as 
regards the requirements for the processing of milk and milk products defined as Category 3 
material " (Document SANCO/10326/2005 Rev.16) seeks to increase producers' options for 
processing animal by-products.  It includes alterna tive treatments that take account of the methods for 
the inactivation of possible FMD virus in milk described in the 1999 Report of the Scientific 
Committee on Animal Health and Animal Welfare on  a "Strategy for Emergency Vaccination against 
Foot and Mouth Disease"  and of Appendix 3.6.2 of the Terrestrial Animal Health Code , 2005 
Edition, of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).  It also includes a condition taking into 
account the health status of the exporting country.  The treatments are outlined below: 
  • Treatments  
  o sterilization at an F
o value of three or more; 
  o UHT* combined with one of the following: 
   (a) a subsequent physical treatment, by: G/SPS/N/EEC/103/Add.18 
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    (i) a drying process, combined in the case of milk intended for 
  feeding with additional heating to 72°C or more; or 
    (ii) lowering the pH below 6 for at least 1 hour;  
   (b) the condition that the milk or milk product has been produced at least 
    21 days before shipping and that during that period no case of foot-
    and-mouth disease has been detected in the member State of origin; 
  o HTST** applied twice;   o HTST**in combination with one of the following:  
   (a) a subsequent physical treatment, by: 
    (i) a drying process, combined in the case of milk intended for 
     feeding with additional heating to 72°C or more; or 
    (ii) lowering the pH below 6 for at least 1 hour;     (b) the condition that the milk or milk product has been produced at least 
    21 days before shipping and that during that period no case of foot-
    and-mouth disease has been detected in the member State of origin. 
  o Whey to be fed to animals of spec ies susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease 
   and produced from milk treated as described above and must be collected at 
   least 16 hours after milk clotting a nd its pH must be recorded as below 6.0 
   before transport to pig holdings. 
 
  Proposed date of adoption:  End of November 2007 
  Proposed date of application:  1 January 2008, with transitional measures until 
      1 June 2008; 
  Final date for comments:  Comment period:  Does not apply [the new proposed 
      inactivation measures for milk products meant for 
      animal feeding complies with the Terrestrial Animal 
      Health Code (OIE/WOAH)]. 
 
 The notified document can be obtained from th e EC Enquiry Point:  sps@ec.europa.eu  
 
 
  
 
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