Animal By-Products Regulations



The Animal By-Products Regulations (No 1774/2002) (SI 1482/2003) allows for the treatment of some animal by-products in composting and digestate) from composting plants and anaerobic digesters onto land in the United Kingdom. 

Categories of Animal By-Products

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

Category 1

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 without 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

Treatment Standards

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

See also
 
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