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►B COUNCILDIRECTIVE
of27November1990
laying down the veterinary rules for the disposal and processing of animal waste, for its placing
on the market and for the prevention of pathogens in feedstuffs of animal or fish origin and
amendingDirective 90/425/EEC
(90/667/EEC)
(OJ L 363, 27.12.1990, p. 51)
Amended by:
Official Journal
No page date
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COUNCILDIRECTIVE
of27November1990
layingdowntheveterinary rulesforthedisposalandprocessingof
animal waste, for its placing on the market and for the preventionof pathogens in feedstuffs of animal or fish origin and amending
Directive 90/425/EEC
(90/667/EEC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic
Community, and in particular Article 43 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission(1),
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament(2),
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social
Committee(3),
Whereas the Community is to adopt measures designed to establish the
internal market progressively over a period expiring on 31 December
1992;
Whereas livestock production occupies a very important position in
agriculture in the Community; whereas, in addition, animal waste,when not disposed of correctly, may spread pathogens in the environ-
ment leading to decreased productivity and margins in this sector;
whereas harmonized rules should be laid down for processing animalwaste and placing on the market processed products resulting there-from;
Whereas a distinction should be drawn between the measures to be
implemented on the basis of the nature of the raw material used;
Whereas, in order to avoid any risk of dispersion of pathogens, animal
waste should be processed in an approved and supervised processingplant or disposed of in another suitable manner; whereas, in addition,
animal waste associated with a high risk should be collected and trans-
ported directly to a processing plant designated by the Member Stateconcerned; whereas, in certain circumstances, especially when this isjustified by distance and time of transport, the designated processingplant could be located in another Member States;
Whereas the possibility of using certain materials should be limited;
Whereas, in order to take into account certain practices, it should be
possible to derogate from the processing laid down for controlled uses;
Whereas processing plants should be subject to self-supervision of their
production, and in particular the observance of microbiological stan-
dards applicable to the final product;
Whereas provision should be made for a Community inspection proce-
dure;
Whereas the products concerned should be subject to the rules for
veterinary checks and any protective measures laid down by CouncilDirective 90/425/EEC of 26 June 1990 concerning veterinary andzootechnical checks applicable in intra-Community trade in certainlive animals and products with a view to the completion of the internalmarket(
4);
Whereas provision should be made for minimum rules of a transitional
nature for imported products;1990L0667 — EN — 06.01.1993 — 001.001 — 2
(1) OJ No C 327, 30. 12. 1989, p. 76.
(2) OJ No C 260, 15. 10. 1990, p. 161.
(3) OJ No C 124, 21. 5. 1990, p. 4.
(4) OJ No L 224, 18. 8. 1990, p. 29.
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Whereas a cooperation procedure should be set up between the
Commission and the Member States for the purposes of adopting appli-cation measures,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:
CHAPTER I
GENERALPROVISIONS
Article 1
1. This Directive lays down:
(a) the animal and public health requirements for the:
(i) disposal and/or processing of animal waste in order to destroy
pathogens which might be present in such materials,
(ii) production of feedingstuffs of animal origin in such manner as
to prevent the presence of any pathogens therein;
(b) the rules for the placing on the market of animal waste intended for
purposes other than human consumption.
2. This Directive shall not affect:
(a) national veterinary legislation applicable to the eradication and
control of certain diseases and to the use of catering waste;
(b) national animal health rules governing the production of compound
feedingstuffs which contain animal and vegetable products as
ingredients and of feedingstuffs which contain material of vege-table origin only.
Article 2
For the purposes of this Directive the following definitions shall apply:
1. animal waste — carcases or parts of animals or fish, or products of
animal origin not intended for direct human consumption, with the
exception of animal excreta and catering waste;
2. high-risk material — animal waste referred to in Article 3 which is
suspected of presenting serious health risks to animals or man;
3. low-risk material — animal waste other than that covered by Article
3, which does not present serious risks of spreading communicablediseases to animals or man;
4. low-risk processing plant — a plant in which low risk material is
processed into ingredients for inclusion in animal feedingstuffs orfishmeal in accordance with Article 5;
5. high-risk processing plant — a plant in which animal waste under-
goes treatment or processing in order to destroy pathogens, in
accordance with Article 3;
6. petfood — food for dogs, cats and other pet animals prepared
entirely or partly from low-risk material;
7. technical or pharmaceutical products — products intended for
purposes other than human or animal consumption;
8. establishment — a low-risk processing plant, a high-risk processing
plant, a plant producing petfood or fishmeal, or a plant whichprepares technical or pharmaceutical products and in which animalwaste is used in the preparation of such products;
9. competent authority — any authority designated by the competent
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CHAPTER II
RULES CONCERNING THE PROCESSING OF ANIMAL
WASTE ANDTHE PLACING ON THE MARKET OF THE
FINALPRODUCT
A.High-riskmaterial
Article 3
1. The following high-risk material must be processed in a high-risk
processing plant approved by the Member State in accordance withArticle 4 (1), or disposed of by burning or burial in accordance withparagraph 2:
(a) all bovine animals, pigs, goats, sheep, solipeds, poultry and all
other animals kept for agricultural production, which have died on
the farm but were not slaughtered for human consumption,including stillborn and unborn animals;
(b) dead animals not referred to in point (a) but which are designated
by the competent authority of the Member State;
(c) animals which are killed in the context of disease control measures
either on the farm or in any other place designated by the compe-tent authority;
(d) animal waste including blood originating from animals which
show, during the veterinary inspection carried out at the time ofslaughtering, clinical signs of diseases communicable to man orother animals;
(e) all those parts of an animal slaughtered in the normal way which
are not presented for post mortem inspection, with the exceptionof hides, skins, hooves, feathers, wool, horns, blood and similar
products;
(f) all meat, poultrymeat, fish, game and foodstuffs of animal origin
which are spoiled and thus present a risk to human and animal
health;
(g) animals, fresh meat, poultrymeat, fish, game and meat and milk
products, imported from third countries, which in the course of
the inspections provided for in Community legislation fail tocomply with the veterinary requirements for their importation intothe Community, unless they are re-exported or their import isaccepted under restrictions laid down in Community provisions;
(h) without prejudice to instances of emergency slaughtering for
reasons of welfare, farm animals which have died in transit;
(i) animal waste containing residues of substances which may pose a
danger to human or animal health; milk, meat or products ofanimal origin rendered unfit for human consumption by thepresence of such residues;
(j) fish which show clinical signs of diseases communicable to man or
to fish.
2. The competent authorities may where necessary decide that high-
risk material must be disposed of by burning or by burial where:
— transport to the nearest high-risk material processing plant of
animals infected or suspected of being infected with an epizooticdisease is rejected because of the danger of propagation of healthrisks,
— the animals are infected with or suspected of being infected with a
serious disease or contain residues which could constitute a risk to
human or animal health and which could survive inadequate heattreatment,
— a wide-spread epizootic disease leads to a lack of capacity at the
high-risk material processing plant,
— the animal waste concerned originates from places with difficult
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— the quantity and the distance to be covered does not justify
collecting the waste.
Burial must be deepenough to p revent carnivorous animals from
digging upthe cadavers or waste and shall be in suitable ground so as
to prevent contamination of water tables or any environmental
nuisance. Before burial, the cadavers or waste shall be sprinkled asnecessary with a suitable disinfectant authorized by the competentauthority.
Article 4
1. Member States shall approve for all or part of their territory one
or more high-risk processing plants for the collection and processing ofhigh-risk material. A Member State may decide to designate a high-risk
processing plant in another Member State after agreement with that
other Member State.
2. In order to be approved by the competent authority, high-risk
processing plants must:
(a) meet the requirement of Annex II, Chapter I;
(b) handle, process and store animal waste in accordance with Annex
II, Chapter II;
(c) be checked by the competent authorities in accordance with Article
10;
(d) ensure that the products af processing satisfy the requirements of
Annex II, Chapter III.
3. Approval shall be suspended as soon as the conditions under
which it was granted are no longer fulfilled.
B.Low-riskmaterial
Article 5
1. Low-risk material must be processed in a high-risk or low-risk
processing plant approved in accordance with Article 4 (2), in a
petfood plant, or in a plant preparing pharmaceutical or technical
products, or be disposed of by burning or burial in accordance withArticle 3 (2).
In addition to the animal waste referred to in Article 2 (3), the
following shall be deemed to be low-risk material:
— products excluded under Article 3 (1) (e), in so far as they are used
in the manufacture of feedingstuffs,
— fish caught in the open sea for the purposes of fishmeal production,
— fresh fish offal from plants manufacturing fish products for human
consumption.
The mixture of low-risk material processed together with high-risk
material shall be deemed to be high-risk material.
Where low-risk material is processed in a petfood plant or a plant
preparing pharmaceutical or technical products, the competent authority
may require that it is dispatched, stored and processed in a specificlocation and under specific conditions.
Fishmeal from industries which receive and manufacture exclusively
low-risk materials intended for the manufacture of fishmeal must meetthe requirements laid down in Annex II, Chapter III.
2. In order to be approved by the competent authority, low-risk
processing plants must:
(a) meet the requirements of Annex II, Chapter I;
(b) handle, process and store animal waste in accordance with Annex
II, Chapter II;
(c) be checked by the competent authorities in accordance with Article
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(d) ensure that the products of processing satisfy the requirements of
Annex II, Chapter III.
Approval shall be suspended as soon as the conditions under which it
was granted are no longer fulfilled.
3. Establishments using low-risk material for the preparation of
petfood or of pharmaceuticals or technical products must be registeredby the competent authority and fulfil the following requirements;
(a) they must have adequate facilities for storing and treating animal
waste in complete safety;
(b) they must have adequate facilities for destroying unused raw
animal waste remaining after the production of petfood, pharma-ceuticals or technical products, or must send it to a processingplant or to an incinerator;
(c) they must have adequate facilities available to destroy waste mate-
rial arising during the production process which is unsuitable ongrounds of animal or public health for inclusion in other animalfood. These facilities must include incineration or burial in suitable
ground to prevent contamination of water courses or any environ-
mental nuisance;
(d) be inspected by the competent authority at regular intervals to
check compliance with the requirements of this Directive.
Article 6
The treatment which certain products of animal origin exclusively
derived from animals or fish and not intended for human consumptionmust undergo during the preparation of petfood and the conditionsunder which they must be manufactured ►
M1are laid down under
Chapter 10 of Annex I to Directive 92/118/EEC ◄, in so far as this
is necessary for the protection of pet animals or for public or animalhealth reasons.
C.Derogations
Article 7
The Member States may authorize in exceptional cases and under the
veterinary supervision of the competent authorities:
(i) the use of animal waste for scientific purposes;
(ii) the use of the animal waste referred to in Article 3 (1) (a), (b) and
(e), provided it comes from animals which were not slaughtered asa result of the presence or suspected presence of a notifiabledisease, and the animal waste referred to in Article 5 for thefeeding of zoo, circus or fur animals, recognized packs of hounds,and maggot farming for fishing bait;
(iii) the local distribution, through intermediaries already authorized on
the date of adoption of this Directive, of small quantities of thewaste referred to in (ii) for use as food for animals whose fleshis not intended for human consumption, provided that the compe-tent authority considers that this entails no risk to human or animal
health.
The Council shall, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from
the Commission, adopt before 31 December 1992 veterinary andanimal health rules applicable to the treatment of certain types of waste
intended to be marketed locally as feedstuffs for certain animal cate-
gories.
The Commission will produce at the same time as the abovementioned
proposal a report on the application of point (iii).
Pending the introduction of specific rules, knackers' yards shall comply
with the standards laid down by this Directive by not later than 31December 1995.1990L0667 — EN — 06.01.1993 — 001.001 — 6
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Member States shall inform the Commission where they make use of
this possibility and shall notify it of the verification arrangements theyintroduce to prevent such waste being used for any other purpose.
In accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 18 the Commis-
sion may amend or supplement the verification measures implemented.
D.General provisions
Article 8
Animal waste must be collected, transported and identified in accor-
dance with Annex I.
CHAPTER III
CONTROLS ANDINSPECTIONS TO BE CARRIEDOUT BYEACH MEMBER STATE ON HIGH-RISK ANDLOW-RISKPROCESSING PLANTS OPERATING WITHIN ITS TERRI-
TORY
Article 9
1. Member States must ensure that, under their responsibility, the
operators and owners of high-risk and low-risk processing plants ortheir representatives adopt all measures necessary to comply with therequirements of this Directive and shall in particular:
— identify and control the critical points in the high-risk and low-risk
processing plants,
— take representative samples in fishmeal manufacturing plants, and
take representative samples from each processed batch in otherlow-risk and high-risk processing plants in order to check compli-ance with the microbiological standards for the product laid downin Annex II, Chapter III and the absence of physico-chemical resi-
dues,
— record the results of the various checks and tests and keepthem for
a period of at least two years for presentation to the competentauthorities,
— introduce a system that makes it possible to link each batch
dispatched and the time when it was produced.
2. Where the result of a test on samples required under this Article
do not comply with the provisions of Annex II, Chapter III, the
operator of the processing plant must:
— notify the competent authority immediately,
— establish the causes of failures of compliance,
— ensure that no material suspected or known to be contamined is
moved from the premises before being reprocessed under the directsupervision of the competent authority and resampled officially inorder to comply with the microbiological control laid down in
Annex II, Chapter III; if it is not possible to reprocess the contami-
nated material for any reason, it must be used for purposes otherthan animal feedingstuffs.
3. In accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 18, the
Commission shall adopt detailed arrangements for implementing this
Article.
Article 10
1. The competent authorities shall at regular intervals carry out
inspections and random checks at the designated high-risk and low-risk processing plants on:
— their compliance with the provisions of this Directive and in parti-
cular with regard to Annex I and Annex II, Chapter I, II and III,
— the microbiological standards of the products after treatment. The
microbiological controls shall include, in particular, examination1990L0667 — EN — 06.01.1993 — 001.001 — 7
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for salmonella and enterobacteriaceae in accordance with Annex II,
Chapter III.
The analyses and tests shall be carried out in accordance with methods
which are scientifically recognized, and in particular those laid down inCommunity provisions or, where none exist, in recognized international
standards.
2. If the inspections carried out by the competent authority reveal
that not all of the requirements of this Directive are being met, the
competent authority must take appropriate action. In particular, in thecase of non-compliance with the provisions of this Article in relationto microbiological standards, and the types of microbiological controls,the manufacturer must:
— notify the competent authority immediately of the full details of the
nature of the sample and the lot from which is was derived,
— process or reprocess the contaminated lot under the supervision of
the competent authority,
— increase the intensity of sampling and testing of production,
— investigate raw material records appropriate to the finished feed
sample,
— instigate appropriate decontamination and cleaning procedures
within the plant.
3. In accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 19, the
Commission shall, if necessary, adopt the detailed arrangements forimplementing this Article.
Article 11
Each Member State shall draw up a list of approved establishments
processing animal waste within its own territory. Each plant shall beassigned an official number which identifies the plant as processinghigh-risk or low-risk material, or producing petfood or technical orpharmaceutical products from animal waste.
The Member States shall forward this list and its up-dates to the other
Member States and to the Commission.
CHAPTER IV
Article 12
1. Veterinary experts from the Commission may, in so far as is
necessary to ensure uniform application of this Directive, and in colla-
boration with the national authorities, make on-the-spot checks; theymay in particular verify whether approved establishments are actuallycomplying with this Directive. The Commission shall inform theMember States of the results of the checks.
A Member State in whose territory a check is being carried out shall
give all the necessary assistance to the experts in carrying out theirduties.
The general arrangements for implementing this Article shall be
adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 19.
2. The Member States concerned shall take all necessary measures
to take account of the result of the checks referred to in paragraph 1and shall in particular prohibit the placing on the market of products
coming from a processing plant which no longer complies with this
Directive. If the Member State fails to take such measures, or if themeasures are deemed to be inadequate, Article 8 of Council Directive89/662/EEC of 11 December 1989 concerning veterinary checks inintra-Community trade with a view to the completion of the internalmarket(
1) shall apply.1990L0667 — EN — 06.01.1993 — 001.001 — 8
(1) OJ No L 395, 30. 12. 1989, p. 13.
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Article 13
1. Directive 90/425/EEC shall apply, in particular with respect to the
organization and following-upof checks carried out by the Member
State of destination and the protective measures to be applied.
2. With a view to ensuring that the controls provided for in para-
graph 1 are followed up:
(a) processed products obtained from low-risk or high-risk materials
must satisfy the requirements of Chapter 6 of Annex I to Directive
92/118/EEC(1);
(b) low-risk materials, high-risk materials intended for processing in a
plant designated in another Member State in accordance with the
second sentence of Article 4 (1) and processed products obtainedfrom high-risk or low-risk materials must be accompanied:
— if they come from a plant approved in accordance with Article
4 or 5, by a commercial document specifying;
— if appropriate, the nature of the treatment,
— whether the product contains ruminant proteins,
— if they come from another plant, by a certificate issued and
signed by an official veterinarian indicating:
— the methods of treatment used on the consignment,
— the result of the salmonella tests,— — whether the product contains ruminant proteins.
2. Directive 90/425/EEC shall be amended as follows:
(a) the following shall be added at the end of Annex A:
‘Council Directive 90/667/EEC of 27 November 1990 laying down
the veterinary rules for the disposal and processing of animalwaste, for its placing on the market and for the prevention ofpathogens in feedingstuffs of animal or fish origin and amendingDirective 90/425/EEC.
OJ No L 363, 27. 12. 1990, p. 51.’;
(b) the first indent of Annex B shall be deleted.
Article 14
In accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 18, the Commis-
sion shall establish criteria for sampling and for microbiologicalcontrols.
CHAPTER V
FINALPROVISIONS
Article 15
1. The Commission, acting in accordance with the procedure laid
down in Article 19, shall establish the detailed arrangements for andfrequency of the checks provided for in Articles 9 and 10 (1).
2. The Commission, acting in accordance with the same procedure,
shall establish the reference methods for the microbiological analyses.
Article 16
The Annexes to this Directive and, with particular regard for develop-
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encephalitis (BSE), the provisions relating to the treatments provided
for in Chapter II, points 6 (a) and (c), shall be amended by the Councilacting by a qualified majority on an proposal from the Commission.
Article 17
Pending the implementation of Community rules concerning the impor-
tation from third countries of animal waste and petfood manufacturedfrom animal waste, Member States shall apply to those imports condi-
tions at least equivalent to those laid down in this Directive, except for
those concerning the conditions of approval.
In particular, they shall not admit low-risk or high-risk material
referred to in Article 3 (1) (g) to (i) which has previously been treatedunless the third country is able to guarantee that such material has
undergone adequate treatment and complies with the microbacteriolo-
gical standards set in Annex II, Chapter III.
The import of high-risk materials referred to in Article 3 (1) (a) to (f)
shall be prohibited.
The Member States shall ensure that these minimum requirements are
complied with by means of import controls.
Article 18
1. Where the procedure laid down in this Article is to be followed,
matters shall be referred without delay to the Standing Veterinary
Committee set upby Decision 68/361/EEC(
1) (hereinafter referred to
as ‘the Committee’) by its chairman, either on his own initiative or atthe request of a Member State.
2. The votes of the representatives of the Member States within the
Committee shall be weighted in the manner laid down in Article 148
(2) of the Treaty. The chairman shall not vote.
3. The representative of the Commission shall submit to the
Committee a draft of the measures to be taken. The Committee shalldeliver its opinion on the draft within two days. The opinion shall be
delivered by a majority of 54 votes.
4. The Commission shall adopt the measures envisaged and imple-
ment them immediately if they are in accordance with the opinion ofthe Committee.
5. If the measures envisaged are not in accordance with the opinion
of the Committee, or if no opinion is delivered, the Commission shall,without delay, submit to the Council a proposal relating to themeasures to be taken. The Council shall act by a qualified majority.
If, on the expiry of a period of 15 days from the date of referral to the
Council, the Council has not acted, the proposed measures shall be
adopted by the Commission save where the Council has decidedagainst the said measures by a simple majority.
Article 19
1. Where the procedure laid down in this Article is to be followed,
matters shall be referred to the Committee without delay by its
chairman, either on his own initiative or at the request of a MemberState.
2. The votes of the representatives of the Member States within the
Committee shall be weighted in the manner set out in Article 148 (2)
of the Treaty. The chairman shall not vote.
3. The representative of the Commission shall submit to the
Committee a draft of the measures to be taken. The Committee shalldeliver its opinion on the draft within a time limit which the chairman1990L0667 — EN — 06.01.1993 — 001.001 — 10
(1) OJ No L 255, 18. 10. 1968, p. 23.
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may lay down according to the urgency of the matter. The opinion
shall be delivered by a majority of 54 votes.
4. The Commission shall adopt the measures envisaged and imple-
ment them immediately if they are in accordance with the opinion of
the Committee.
5. If the measures envisaged are not in accordance with the opinion
of the Committee, or if no opinion is delivered, the Commission shall,without delay, submit to the Council a proposal relating to themeasures to be taken. The Council shall act by a qualified majority.
If, on the expiry of a period of three months from the date of referral to
the Council, the Council has not acted, the proposed measures shall be
adopted by the Commission, save where the Council has decided
against the said measures by a simple majority.
Article 20
The Council shall, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from
the Commission not later than 31 December 1992, adopt the animalhealth rules to be complied with during the manufacture of feeding-stuffs which contain animal and vegetable products as ingredients, andthe rules of hygiene to be complied with during the manufacture of
feedingstuffs the ingredients of which are exclusively of vegetable
origin.
Article 21
1. The Member States shall bring into force, not later than 31
December 1991 the law, regulations and administrative provisionsnecessary to comply with this Directive.
2. However, for the territory of the Länder of Mecklenburg-W.
Pomerania, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony and Thuringia, theFederal Republic of Germany shall have a further year within which
to comply with this Directive.
The Federal Republic of Germany shall, not later than 30 June 1992,
submit to the Council and the other Member States, meeting withinthe Standing Veterinary Committee, a report on the animal wastedisposal situation in those Länder.
In accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 19, the Commis-
sion shall decide on any subsequent transitional measures for certainestablishments located in those Länder.
3. When Member States adopt the measures referred to in paragraph
1, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or shall be accompa-
nied by such reference on the occasion of their official publication. Themethods of making such a reference shall be laid down by the MemberStates.
Article 22
This Directive is addressed to the Member States.1990L0667 — EN — 06.01.1993 — 001.001 — 11
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ANNEX I
HYGIENE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE COLLECTION ANDTRANS-
PORTOFANIMALWASTE
1. Animal waste must be collected and transported to approved establishments
or the high or low-risk processing plants in suitable containers or vehicles in
such a way as to prevent leakage. The containers or vehicles must be
adequately covered.
2. Vehicles, tarpaulin covers and reusable containers must be maintained in a
clean condition.
3. The competent authority shall take the necessary measures to control the
movements of high-risk materials by requiring the keeping of records and
documents, which shall accompany those materials during their transport to
the place of disposal, or, if necessary, by sealing.
4. Where certain meat, dairy and fish products not intended for human
consumption and derived from animals or fish, the meat or milk of which
has been approved for human consumption are transported directly in bulk
to a processing plant, the information on the origin, name and nature of the
animal waste and the words ‘not for human consumption’ must also be indi-
cated on a label attached to the container, cartons or other packaging material
in letters at least 2 cm high.1990L0667 — EN — 06.01.1993 — 001.001 — 12
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ANNEX II
HYGIENE REQUIREMENTS FOR ANIMAL-WASTE PROCESSING
PLANTS
CHAPTER I
Approvalrequirementsforanimal-wasteprocessingplants
1. Premises and facilities must meet at least the following requirements:
(a) the premises of the processing plant must be adequately separated from
the public highway and other premises such as slaughterhouses. Premises
for the processing of high-risk material must not be at the same site as
slaughterhouses, unless in a completely separate part of a building;
unauthorized persons and animals shall have no access to the plant;
(b) the plant must have a clean and an unclean section, adequately separated.
The unclean section must have a covered place to receive the animal
waste and must be constructed in such a way that it is easy to clean
and disinfect. Floors must be laid in such a way as to facilitate the
draining of liquids. The plant must have adequate lavatories, changing
rooms and washbasins for staff;
in the unclean section, where appropriate, there must be adequate facil-
ities for de-skinning or de-hairing of animals and a storage room for
hides;
(c) the plant must have sufficient capacity and hot water and steam produc-
tion for the processing of animal waste in accordance with Chapter II;
(d) the unclean section must, if appropriate, contain equipment to reduce the
size of animal waste and equipment for loading the crushed animal waste
into the processing unit;
(e) a closed processing installation is required in which the animal waste
must be processed in accordance with Chapter II. Where heat treatment
is required, this installation must be equipped with:
— measuring equipment to check temperature and, if necessary, pressure
at critical points,
— recording devices to record continuously the results of measurements,— an adequate safety system to prevent insufficient heating;
(f) to prevent recontamination of the finished processed material by
incoming raw material, there must be clear separation between the area
of the plant where the incoming raw material is unloaded and processed
and the areas set aside for further processing of the heated material and
the storage of the finished processed product.
2. The processing plant must have adequate facilities for cleaning and disin-
fecting the containers or recipients in which animal waste is received and
the vehicles — other than ships — in which it is transported.
3. Adequate facilities must be provided for disinfecting the wheels, immediately
before their departure, of vehicles transporting high-risk material or leaving
the unclean section of a processing plant.
4. A waste-water disposal system meeting hygiene requirements is required for
the processing plant.
5. The processing plant must have its own laboratory or make use of the
services of a laboratory equipped to make the essential analysis and, in parti-
cular, to check conformity with Chapter III.
CHAPTER II
Hygiene requirements relating to operation in animal-waste processing
plants
1. Animal waste must be processed as soon as possible after arrival. It must be
stored properly until processed.
2. Containers, recipients and vehicles used for the transport of animal waste
must be cleaned, washed and disinfected after each use.
3. Persons working in the unclean section must not enter the clean section
without changing their working clothes and footwear or without disinfecting
the latter. Equipment and utensils shall not be taken from the unclean section
into the clean section.1990L0667 — EN — 06.01.1993 — 001.001 — 13
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4. Waste water originating in the unclean section must be treated to ensure that
no pathogens remain.
5. Preventive measures against birds, rodents, insects or other vermin must be
taken systematically.
6. Animal waste must be processed under the following conditions:
(a) high-risk material must be heated to a core temperature of at least 133 ºC
for 20 minutes at a pressure of 3 bar. The particle size of the raw mate-
rial prior to processing must be reduced to at least 50 mm by means of a
prebreaker or grinder;
(b) recording thermographs must be provided at the critical points of the
heating process to monitor the heat treatment;
(c) other systems of heat treatment may be used provided that they are
approved in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 19 as
offering equivalent guarantees with regard to microbiological safety.
Such alternative heat treatment systems may be approved only where the
final product has been sampled on a daily basis over a period of one
month to ensure compliance with the microbiological standards laid
down in Chapter III (1) and (2). Subsequent routine sampling of the
products as provided for in Articles 9 (1) and 10 (1) must also be carried
out.
7. Installations and equipment must be kept in a good state of repair and
measuring equipment must de calibrated at regular intervals.
8. The finished products must be handled and stored at the processing plant in
such a way as to preclude recontamination.
9. Hides must be salted using sodium chloride.
CHAPTER III
Requirementsconcerningtheproductsafterprocessing
1. In the case of high-risk materials, samples of the finished products, taken
directly after heat treatment, must be free from heat-resistant pathogenic
bacteria spores ( Clostridium perfringens absent in 1 g of the product).
2. Samples of the final products from both low-risk and high-risk material taken
during or upon withdrawal from storage at the processing plant must comply
with the following standards:
Salmonella: absence in 25 g: n = 5, c = 0, m = 0, M = 0,
Enterobacteriaceae: n = 5, c = 2, m = 10, M = 3 × 102in 1 g,
wheren = number of units comprising the sample;
m = threshold value for the number of bacteria; the result is considered
satisfactory if the number of bacteria in all sample units does not
exceed m;
M = maximum value for the number of bacteria; the result is considered
unsatisfactory if the number of bacteria in one or more sample units
is M or more;
c = number of sample units the bacterial count of which may be between
m and M, the sample still being considered acceptable if the bacterial
count of the other sample units is m or less.1990L0667 — EN — 06.01.1993 — 001.001 — 14