Animal By PRoducts Flashcards
What are animal by products?
animal carcases, parts of carcases or products of animal origin that are
not intended for human consumption
Which includes:
catering waste, used cooking oil, former foodstuffs, butcher and slaughterhouse waste, blood, feathers, wool, hides and skins, fallen stock, pet animals, zoo and circus animals, hunt trophies, manure, ova, embryos and semen, faeces
What tells you something is safe to eat?
Health mark
unique to establishment that has packaged the product. Tell you passed inspection and supervised by FSA
Do Butcher’s have health marks to tell you something is safe to eat?
No local health authorities do this
What is dressing %?
ratio of dressed carcass weight to weight of the live animal expressed s a %
What is the highest risk animal by products?
Specified risk material = TSEs
What are TSEs?
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) or prion diseases are a family of rare progressive neurodegenerative brain disorders that affect both humans and animals.
= BSE cows and scrapie sheep and goats related material
What member states have controlled risk of BSE
England, wales, ROI, France, Greece, Scotland
In member states with controlled risk of BSE, what is SRM?
Cattle all ages
Over 12 months
Over 30 months
Cattle of all ages: 1. tonsils 2. last 4 metres SI 3. Caecum 4. Mesentery to do with lymphoid tissue: SI = payers patches
Over 12 months
Skull including brain, eyes, spinal cord, excluding mandible (masseter, ox cheek = human consumption)
Over 30 months:
Vertebral column including dorsal root ganglia, excluding:
Vertebrae of tail, spinous and transverse process of cervical, thoracic and lumbar vertebrae
- median sacral crest and wings of the sacrum
What is SRM in member states with negligible risk of BSE?
Only over 12 months, not under:
Skull, excluding mandible including brain, eyes, spinal cord,
• Sheep specified risk material
SCRAPIE
o Over 12 months
Skull including brain, eyes, spinal cord, tonsils
Doesn’t include horns
Before 12 months head can be used for human consumption
Who is responsible for ABP enforcement relating to ABP within approved slaughterhouses and cutting plants?
Food Standards Agency
Role of the Specified Risk material regulations 1997?
o Controls abattoirs for identification, removal and disposal of designated risk material from carcases
Role of animal by product order 1999
o Introduced testing for enterobacteria risks
Rules with regards to ABP
Risk based: split into 3 categories, with different treatments depending on the level of risk
There must be licences for establishments that handle ABP and for equipment that destroys it.
Rules for movement and international trade
Enforcement of these rules is by vets and local authorities (FSA, APHA
TSE’s regulations 2002/2006
o Offence to allow access of ruminant animals to ruminant carcases