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European Communities (Disposal, Processing and Placing on the Market of Animal By-Products) (Amendment) Regulations, 2001 (S.I. No. 77 of 2001).

Country/Territory
Ireland
Document type
Regulation
Date
2001
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Fisheries, Livestock
Keyword
Animal feed/feedstuffs Animal health Pests/diseases
Geographical area
Atlantic Ocean Islands, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries, North Atlantic, North-East Atlantic, Northern Europe
Abstract

These Regulations amend the principal Regulations of 1994 by setting out a revised list of animals excluded from entering the animal feed chain. The following animal by-products shall not be used for the production of feed for farmed animals: (a) all bovine animals, pigs, goats, sheep, solipeds, poultry, farmed fish and all other animals kept for agricultural production which have died on the farm but were not slaughtered for human consumption, including stillborn and unborn animals; (b) the following dead animals: (i) pet animals, (ii) zoo animals, (iii) circus animals, (iv) experimental animals, (v) wild animals as designated by the Minister; (c) animals which are killed on the farm for disease control measures; (d) without prejudice to instances of emergency slaughtering for reasons of welfare, farm animals which have died in transit.

Full text
English
Website
www.agriculture.gov.ie

References - Legislation

Amends

European Communities (Disposal, Processing and Placing on the Market of Animal By-Products) Regulations, 1994.

Legislation | Ireland | 1994

Keyword: Animal feed/feedstuffs, Animal health, Pests/diseases

Source: FAO, FAOLEX