Regulation 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations—

• “agricultural land” means land used or capable of use for the purposes of a trade or business in connection with agriculture;

• “agriculture” includes fruit growing, seed growing, dairy farming and livestock breeding and keeping, the use of land as grazing land, meadow land, osier land, the use of land for woodlands, and horticulture (except the propagation of plants and the growing of plants within greenhouses and glass or plastic structures);

• “mammalian meat and bone meal” means mammalian protein derived from the whole or part of any dead mammal by the process of rendering;

• “protein” means any proteinaceous material, except—

  1. (a)

     any milk product;

  2. (b)

     dicalcium phosphate derived from bones;

  3. (c)

     dried plasma or any other blood product;

  4. (d)

     gelatin; or

  5. (e)

     amino acids produced from hides and skins by a process which involves exposure of the material to acid of a pH lower than 2 followed by alkali of a pH greater than 11 and heat treatment at a minimum of 140°C for 30 minutes at a pressure of 3 bar.