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LAND ANIMAL PRODUCTS

NumberNameDescriptionCompulsory declarations
(1)(2)(3)(4)
9.01Meat mealf1Product obtained by heating, drying and grinding whole or parts of warm-blooded land animals from which the fat may have been partially extracted or physically removed. The product must be substantially free of hooves, horn, bristle, hair and feathers, as well as digestive tract content (minimum protein content 50% in dry matter). (Maximum total phosphorus content: 8%).

Protein

Fat

Ash

Moisture, if > 8%

9.02Meat-and-bone mealf2Product obtained by heating, drying and grinding whole or parts of warm-blooded land animals from which the fat may have been partially extracted or physically removed. The product must be substantially free of hooves, horn, bristle, hair and feathers, as well as digestive tract content.

Protein

Fat

Ash

Moisture, if > 8%

9.03Bone mealProduct obtained by heating, drying and finely grinding bones of warm-blooded land animals from which the fat has been largely extracted or physically removed. The product must be substantially free of hooves, horn, bristle, hair and feathers, as well as digestive tract content.

Protein

Ash

Moisture, if > 8%

9.04GreavesResidual product of the manufacture of tallow, lard and other extracted or physically removed fats of animal origin.

Protein

Fat

Moisture, if > 8%

9.05Poultry mealf3Product obtained by heating, drying and grinding by-products from slaughtered poultry. The product must be substantially free of feathers.

Protein

Fat

Ash

Ash insoluble inHC1 > 3.3%

Moisture, if > 8%

9.06Feather meal, hydrolysedProduct obtained by hydrolysing, drying and grinding poultry feathers.

Protein

Ash insoluble inHC1 > 3.4%

Moisture, if > 8%

9.07Blood mealProduct obtained by drying the blood of slaughtered warm-blooded animals. The product must be substantially free of foreign matter.

Protein

Moisture, if > 8%

9.08Animal fatf4Product composed of fat from warm-blooded land animals.Moisture, if > 1%

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

Products containing more than 13% fat in the dry matter must be qualified as ‘rich in fat’.

f2

Products containing more than 13% fat in the dry matter must be qualified as ‘rich in fat’.

f3

Products containing more than 13% fat in the dry matter must be qualified as ‘rich in fat’.

f4

This name may be supplemented by a more accurate description of the type of animal fat depending on its origin or production process (tallow, lard, bone fat, etc.).