Animal By-Products Order

The Animal By-Products Order (ABPO) in England has now been repealed and replaced by the Animal By-Products (Enforcement) (England) Regulations 2011 as the legal means of transposing the EU regulation into national statutes. The Regulations impact upon any person or business generating, using, disposing of, storing, handling or transporting animal by-products. They categorise animal by-products into 3 separate categories depending on the risk they pose (Category 1 High Risk; Category 3 Low Risk). Catering waste, including domestic kitchen waste is category 3 material, though it is only in the scope of the Regulations in certain situations, to prevent it from being fed to livestock (which is banned under the Regulation) or such as when it is intended for composting or anaerobic digestion.