Animal By Product Categories

This list is intended for guidance only and is not exhaustive (Article
10 of Regulation (EC) No.1069/2009).

Definition of Category 3 (Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No. 1069/2009)

Carcases and parts of animals slaughtered or, in the case of game, bodies or parts of animals killed, and which are fit for human consumption in accordance with Community legislation, but are not intended for human consumption for commercial reasons (Article 10(a)).

Carcases and the following parts originating either from animals that have been slaughtered in a slaughterhouse and were considered fit for slaughter for human consumption following an ante-mortem inspection or bodies and the following parts of animals from game killed for human consumption in accordance with Community legislation (Article 10 (b)):

carcases or bodies and parts of animals which are rejected as unfit for human consumption in accordance with Community legislation, but which did not show any signs of disease communicable to humans or animals (Article 10(b)

(i)); heads of poultry (Article 10(b)
(ii)); hides and skins, including trimmings and splitting thereof, horns and feet, including the phalanges and the carpus and metacarpus bones, tarsus and metatarsus bones, of (Article 10(b)
(iii)): animals, other than ruminants requiring TSE testing, and
ruminants which have been tested with a negative result in accordance with Article 6(1) of Regulation (EC) No. 999/2001; pig bristles (Article 10(b)
(iv)); feathers (Article 10(b)
(v)); Animal by-products from poultry and lagomorphs slaughtered on the farm as referred to in Article 1(3)(d) of Regulation (EC) No. 853/2004, which did not show any signs of disease communicable to humans or animals (Article 10(c).

Blood of animals which did not show any signs of disease communicable through blood to humans or animals obtained from the following animals that have been slaughtered in a slaughterhouse after having been considered fit for slaughter for human consumption following an ante-mortem inspection in accordance with Community legislation (Article 10(d)): animals other than ruminants requiring TSE testing (Article 10(d)
(i)); and ruminants which have been tested with a negative result in accordance with Article 6(1) of Regulation (EC) No. 999/2001 (Article 10(d)
(ii)). Animal by-products arising from the production of products intended for human consumption, including degreased bones, greaves and centrifuge or separator sludge from milk processing (Article 10(e)).

Products of animal origin, or foodstuffs containing products of animal origin, which are no longer intended for human consumption for commercial reasons or due to problems of manufacturing or packaging defects or other defects from which no risk to public or animal health arise (Article 10(f)).
Blood, placenta, wool, feathers, hair, horns, hoof cuts and raw milk originating from live animals that did not show any signs of disease communicable through that product to humans or animals (Article 10(h)).

The following material originating from animals which did not show any signs of disease communicable through that material to humans or animals (Article 10(k)): the following originating from terrestrial animals(Article 10(k)(ii)):
hatchery by-products,
eggs,
egg by-products, including egg shells,
day-old chicks killed for commercial reasons (Article 10(k)(iii));
Animals and parts thereof of the zoological orders of Rodentia and Lagomorpha, except Category 1 material as referred to in Article 8(a)(iii), (iv) and (v) and Category 2 material as referred to in Article 9(a) to (g) (Article 10(m));
Hides and skins, hooves, feathers, wool, horns, hair and fur originating from dead animals that did not show any signs of disease communicable through that product to humans or animals, other than those referred to in point (b) of this Article (Article 10(n));
Adipose tissue from animals which did not show any signs of disease communicable through that material to humans or animals, which were slaughtered in a slaughterhouse and which were considered fit for slaughter for human consumption following an ante-mortem inspection in accordance with Community legislation (Article 10(o));
Catering waste other than as referred to in Article 8(f) (Article 10(p)).

Examples of Category 3 material
Carcases or parts of carcases that have passed ante- and post-mortem inspection but, for commercial or other reasons, are not intended for human consumption, for example: incised pig lungs, pig spleens, stomachs and intestines from mammals or ratites empty of digestive material (except bovine intestines, and ovine and caprine ileum which are Category 1), poultry necks, poultry intestines (note: the intestinal tracts of poultry do not have to be empty to be considered as Category 3 material), testicles, pig rind, bones from a cutting plant.

Parts of a carcase or offal that are not permitted by the Hygiene Regulations to be used for human consumption but which nevertheless show no sign of disease communicable to humans or animals, for example, livers with fluke lesions, liver milk spot lesions, muellerius lung lesions, melanosis, meat trimmed from the sticking point, and meat trimmed because of old healed lesions.

Trimmed fat or waste carcase meat not intended for human consumption.
Lymph nodes and nervous tissue removed during cutting of fat from bovine animals.
Meat rejected by the producer because it no longer meets specification.
Poultry heads and feet that have passed a post-mortem inspection on the line attached to the carcase.

Poultry heads and feet separated from the carcase prior to post-mortem inspection but which have passed ante-mortem inspection.

Meat that falls on the floor and which is rejected as unfit for human consumption for that reason. (Meat that falls on the floor can be retrieved for human consumption from a visibly clean floor if suitable procedures are in place to control risk.)

Hides, skins, hooves/feet, horns, pig bristles and feathers derived from animals other than ruminants requiring TSE testing or with a negative result that have passed ante-mortem inspection, and do not show any clinical sign of disease communicable through that product to humans or animals.

Any carcase, part of a carcase or offal certified as not being produced, stored or transported in accordance with the hygiene regulations which consequently cannot be sold for human consumption, for example, traceable meat with no health/identification mark; meat stored or found over temperature (unless it is Category 1 or Category 2 material).

Decomposed or spoiled meat in line with Article 14 (d) of Regulation (EC) No. 1069/2009.

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