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The ABP Regulations General overview

Ir.Keppens Christophe

Dr. Zamfirescu Victor

RE 1069/2009 & implementation RE 142/2011

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Introduction

A. Background

B. Players

C. Dangers

D. Barriers

E. Scope

F. Starting and end point

G. Categorization

H. Destination

I. Placing on the market

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Background

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• We eat 68% of chicken, 62% of pig, 54% of cattle, 52% of sheep or goat

• Huge quantity of valuable proteins, fats…

• Over 20 million tons ABP originated from slaughterhouses alone in EU

• In 2011 from 22 MS were processed 16.468 Ktones (C1&C2&C3)

• From HC chain, dead animals, specially for NHC produced products

• Global turn over of 3,30 billions EUROS

Some data

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Variety of usage of ABP (examples)

• Shopping bags–slip agent from animal fat

• Tyres & fireworks-animal based

stearic acid • Violins & pianos–animal glue • Cosmetics – glycerin

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Players

Producers of ABP

Farm sector and other fallen stock

producer:

- Farms

- Zoo/circus

- Pet breeders

- Some wild animals

- Other

Def.art3(6) - R 1069

-all farmed animals, including equines

and fur animals

- pets and wilds

Food industry and other: - Slaughterhouses - Meat processing and cutting plants - Milk, fish, egg processing plants - Storage food establishments - Retail sector ( from hipermarkets to small shops) - Catering sector ( restaurants, kitchen, etc) - Airoports, train stations, seaports, BIP, etc

ABP industry

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Flowchart – Interaction of ABP industry with other industries

Animal

Rearing Food sector

ABP sector Feed sector

Processing

ABP plants

Biogas/Compos

ting plants

Pet food

plants/retail

OF/SI plants

Soil

application

Handling/Technical

plants

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Dangers

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• Chemical

• Physical (foreign bodies)

• Biological

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Chemical (residue, antibiotics, forbidden s.)

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Biological (prions, bacteria, viruses)

Antrax

Bacillus anthracis

ESB

Prions

Botulism

Clostridium botulinum

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Barriers

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Barriers

Harmonized ABP rules:

• - categorization

• - destinations

• - rules for transformation of ABP/DP

• - microbiological standards

• - HACCP

• - owncheck

• - rules for import

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Barriers

• Barriers for chemical dangers

• - categorization, HACCP, own check, destinations

• Barriers for physical dangers

• - categorization, HACCP, metal detector

• Barriers for biological dangers

• - categorization, HACCP, destinations

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Barriers

• Barriers for chemical dangers

• - categorization, HACCP, own check, destinations

• Barriers for physical dangers

• - categorization, HACCP, metal detector

• Barriers for biological dangers

• - categorization, HACCP, destinations

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What do we Regulate?

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Product of an animal

Not destined for human consumption

Not per se linked to quality/nature of

product

Can be linked to a decision/intention

What is an ABP ?

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Exclusions

• APB from wild animals

• ABP from wild game (when left at the spot and burried, or

local sale by hunter)

• Inert shells

• Certain catering waste (international in scope, destined for

processing, biogas, composting and feed in scope)

• Oocytes, sperm and embryons for reproduction

SCOPE

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Exclusions

• Milk (products) used or destroyed at farm of origin

• Non diseased fish ABP thrown overboard

• “raw” petfood at butchers, slaughterhouse shops

• “raw petfood from ABP of home slaughter for own pets

• Excrements and urine other than manure and non-mineralised guano

SCOPE

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• exclusion of products covered by ABP regulation,

except those destined for:

- Incineration

- Landfilling

- Use in a biogas or composting plant

Interaction with Directive 2008/98/EC on Waste

Scope

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SCOPE of ABP regulation

Hygiene package

Products of animal

origin or raw material

fit for human

consumption

Derived

products Treatment, processing,

transformation

ABP « By Law »

Decision by an operator

Irreversible

ABP « By choice »

Scope

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Starting and End Point

• Legal defined

• For reasons of legal certainty and proper control of potential risks

• Why we need and end point in ABP and not in feed or food legislation?

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OB

LIG

AT

ION

S

Derived products

disposed of,

intended for

feeding farmed

animals and

OF/SI

STARTING POINT

Derived products

intended for

pet food, feeding

fur animals and

technical

products other

than OF/SI

END POINT Step n

Step 0

Collection

Transport

Storage of ABP

Treatment

Processing

Transformation

Storage of DP

Distribution

Placing on the

market

Use

Generation

of ABP

Obligations

of operators

and CA

OB

LIG

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ION

S

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

In the SCOPE of

ABP regulation

ABP ABP

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End point : consequences

No obligations for operators and Members States

after the end point

Derived products after the end point remain

within the scope of the ABP regulation

In case of sanitary risk, derived products after the

end point will be subject to emergency measures

by the Commission

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• End point does only apply for certain products : - Products covered by other EU legislation:

Cosmetic, medical devices, medicinal products (Art. 33)

- Products which present no high risk for human health and animal health :

Pet food (Art. 35)

Feed for fur animals (Art. 36)

Other technical products (Art. 36)

• End point is applied when the product satisfy with

relevant requirements in ABP legislation (eg: a specific

annex, chapter etc…)

• End point does NOT apply for : - Derived products for feeding to farmed animals (Art. 31)

- Organic fertilisers and soils improvers (Art. 32)

End point

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The end point is definied for certain products in

manufacturing chains

• Biodiesel

• Processed pet food

• Dogchews

• Hides and skins of ungulates

• Wool and hair

• Feathers and down

• Fur

•Fish oil

•Gasoline and fuel

End point

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The ABP System

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Category 1

• Risk of prions

• Risk of banned products or contamination

Category 2

• Microbiological risk

• Residues of medicines

Category 3 Origin of healthy animals

Based on risk approach

Categorization

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Destinations

Destination for respectively category 1, 2 and 3

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• Most used destination

- processing

- pet food

- energy (biogas, incineration, biodiesel, combustion)

- fertilizers

- feed

Destinations

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• Intermediate destination • - special feeding purposes:

• - zoo, circus

• - dogs & cats in shelters

• - dogs from recognized kennels or packs of hounds

• - fur animals

• - maggots and worms for fishing bait

• - wild animals

• - endangered and protected species

• - technical sector (eg: cosmetic, medical device, other industries)

• - cascade

• - some alternative processing methods

• - biodynamic preparation

Destinations

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• Rare destination

- natural disaster

- remote areas

- outbreak of epizootic disease

Destinations

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General overview of destinations of ABP/DP

Classic

Processing

Incineration Pet food Biogas Composting

Feed

derogations

Feed

Disposal

derogations

OF/SI

Other alternative

Processing

Biodiesel

Landfill

Combustion

Technical sector

Producers of

ABP

Producers of

ABP

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Placing on the market

Requirements:

• Commercial documents & registry

• Traceability (separation, identification, labeling, coding

color system, marking, list of approved/registered ABP

plants)

• Art. 48 for C1&C2 ABP/MBM and rendered fat

• TRACES for C1&C2 ABP/MBM and rendered fat and

PAP

• Satisfy with relevant requirements of ABP legislation

(art….Annex….) e.g.: temperature, microbiological

etc…..

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Placing on the

market

Commercial Doc is

Key for

traceability

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• Thank you for your attention !