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Animal By Products Regulations

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Animal By-Products Regulations

The Animal By-Products Regulations (No 1069/2009) (SI 142/2011) allows for the treatment of some animal by-products in composting and biogas plants (anaerobic digesters). The following article describes procedures required to allow solid outputs (compost, digestate) from composting plants and anaerobic digesters onto land in the United Kingdom.

Contents

Categories of Animal By-Products

  • Category 1: Very high risk
  • Category 2: High risk
  • Category 3: Low risk

    • Category 1

  • BSE (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy) carcasses and suspects
  • Specified Risk Material
  • Catering waste from international transport

    • Must all be destroyed, not for use in composting or biogas plants

    Category 2

  • Condemned meat
  • Manure and gut contents

    • Can be used in composting and biogas plants after rendering (133C, 3 bar pressure) Manure and gut contents only can be used after pretreatment

    Category 3

  • Catering waste from households, restaurants
  • Former food
  • Much slaughter house waste e.g. waste blood & feathers

    • Can be used in composting and biogas plants without pretreatment

    Composting

    Closed reactor

  • Maximum particle size 40cm, minimum temperature 60C, minimum time at that temperature 2 days
  • Maximum Particle size 6cm, minimum temperature 70C, minimum time at that temperature 1 hour

    • Housed windrow

  • Particle size 40cm, minimum temperature 60C, minimum time at that temperature 8 days

    • Biogas plants

  • Maximum particle size 5cm, minimum temperature 57C, minimum time at that temperature 5 hours
  • Maximum particle size 6cm, minimum temperature 70C, minimum time at that temperature 1 hour

    • References

    Animal By-Products Regulations Wikipedia
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