{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-by-products-amendment-order-1996/article-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-by-products-amendment-order-1996/article-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/827",
  "legislation_title": "The Animal By-Products (Amendment) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-by-products-amendment-order-1996",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Approval of animal by-products rendering premises",
  "text": "Schedule 4 to the principal Order shall be amended—\n(a) by inserting in paragraph 6(ii) of Section B of Part I after the words “in Commission Decision No 92/562/EEC” the words “as amended and as read, in the case of animal by-products of ruminant origin, with Commission Decision No 94/382/EC on the approval of alternative heat treatment systems for processing animal waste of ruminant origin, with a view to the inactivation of spongiform encephalopathy agents, as amended”, and\n(b) by adding at the end of Section B of Part II the following paragraph—\n“9 In the case of animal by-products of ruminant origin rendering must be carried out either:\n(i) so that\n(a) material is heated to a core temperature of at least 133°C for 20 minutes at a pressure of 3 bar. The particle size of the raw material prior to processing must be reduced to at least 50 mm by means of a prebreaker or grinder; and\n(b) recording thermographs are provided at the critical points of the heating process to monitor the heat treatment; or\n(ii) using any of the systems of heat treatment described in Commission Decision No 92/562/EEC, as amended and as read with Commission Decision No 94/382/EC as amended.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Commission Decision No 92/562/EEC on the approval of alternative heat treatment systems for processing high-risk material was amended, in respect of aquatic animals, by item 27 of Chapter 5 of Part E of Section V of Annex 1 to the Decision of the Council of the European Union adjusting the instruments concerning the accession of new Member States to the European Union (OJ No L 1, 1.1.95, p. 100)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No L 172, 7.7.94, p. 25."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "By Commission Decision No 95/29/EC (OJ No L 38, 18.2.95, p. 17)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/827/article/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:47:23.254778+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}