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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 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

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

 
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Animal_By-Products_Regulations". A list of authors is available in Wikipedia.
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