Vol.13 - 5. Industry Processes and Controls 5. Introduction 5.1 Knacker's yards, hunt kennels and maggot bait farms collect carcasses of diseased or injured animals that cannot be used for human consumption. They process them and dispose of the remains, usually to renderers.
Knackers salvage many products of value, such as hides and any meat suitable for pet food.
Hunt kennels collect and process these carcasses for food for their hounds. 1 Maggot bait farms expose the carcasses to flies to encourage them to lay their eggs in the carcasses to produce maggots which are then sold for use as bait by fishermen. 2 5.2 These three types of business are relevant to the BSE story because of the possibility that BSE-infected material might have passed from them to renderers, or directly into feed for animals. All three make commercial use of carcasses that for health reasons cannot be used for human food. On occasions, they humanely slaughter animals that otherwise cannot be moved and dispose of dead animals.