Animal By-Products

Question 1

What are animal by-products?

Answer 1

*Parts of animals that are not meant for human consumption
-horns
-leather
-intestines
-bones
-hooves

Question 2

What is the dressing percentage?

Answer 2

Killing out percentage
Live to dead weight ratio

Question 3

What are the 3 categories of animal by-products?

Answer 3

Category 1 - high risk
Category 2 - high risk
Category 3 - low risk

Question 4

Which parts of the animal are classed as Category 1?

Answer 4

• carcasses and all body parts of animals suspected of being infected with TSE
• carcasses of wild animals suspected of being infected with a disease that humans or animals could contract
• carcasses of animals used in experiments
• parts of animals that are contaminated due to illegal treatments
• international catering waste
• carcasses and body parts from zoo and circus animals or pets
• specified risk material (SRM)

Question 5

What needs to be done with SRM? specific risk material

Answer 5

*Complete removal, staining and disposal
*Wash hands after handling
*Use of leak-proof properly lidded SRM storage

Question 6

What are the SRM of cattle?

Answer 6

*All ages - the tonsils, the last four metres of small intestine, the caecum, and the mesentery.
* Over 12 months – skull excluding the mandible but including the brains and eyes, and spinal cord.
*Over 30 months - vertebral column including dorsal root ganglia

Question 7

What are the SRM of sheep?

Answer 7

• All ages – the spleen and the ileum.
• Over 12 months (or have a permanent incisor erupted) – skull including the brains and eyes,
  tonsils, spinal cord.

Question 8

What do we do with Category 1 ABP

Answer 8

• incineration or co-incineration at an approved plant
• processing using processing methods 1-5 followed by permanent marking using
  glyceroltriheptanoate (GTH), then incineration or co-incineration
• pressure sterilisation (apart from possible TSE cases or animals killed under TSE eradication
  laws) followed by permanent marking, then landfill
• using them as fuel for combustion at an approved combustion plant
• sending them for burial at an authorised landfill, if they are international catering waste

Question 9

What are classed as Category 2 animals?

Answer 9

• animals rejected from abattoirs due to having infectious diseases
• carcasses containing residues from authorised treatments
• unhatched poultry that has died in its shell
• carcasses of animals killed for disease control purposes
• carcasses of dead livestock
• manure
• digestive tract content

Question 10

What do you do with category 2 material?

Answer 10

*Incineration
*landfill after pressure sterilisation + marking with GTH
*Making into organic fertiliser after processing + marking w GTH
*Composing/anaerobic digestion after pressure sterilisation + marking
*Applying to land
*Use as fuel for combustion

Question 11

What are classed as category 3?

Answer 11

• carcasses or body parts passed fit for humans to eat, at a slaughterhouse
• products or foods of animal origin originally meant for human consumption but withdrawn for
  commercial reasons, not because it’s unfit to eat
• domestic catering waste
• shells from shellfish with soft tissue
• eggs, egg by-products, hatchery by-products and eggshells
• aquatic animals, aquatic and terrestrial invertebrates
• hides and skins from slaughterhouses
• animal hides, skins, hooves, feathers, wool, horns, and hair that had no signs of infectious
  disease at death

Question 12

What do we do with Category 3?

Answer 12

*cosmetic / medical products
*Petfood