Handling raw materials and by-products of animal provenance in food processing plants

As a consequence of the "rotten meat" scandals, above all at the end of 2005 and the beginning of 2006, followed by the incidents in Autumn 2007, some of the German states adopted measures to avoid such measures as far as possible in future by stepping up or optimising surveillance. In this connection primary programmes were established in Baden-Wuerttemberg to intensify in particular monitoring operations in food plants at the interface between the law governing food and the law governing elimination of by-products of animal provenance. Against the background of the many unresolved questions that evolved, partly within the framework of this project, the states created a joint project group together with representatives of the German Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (BMELV) to tackle special unanswered questions in this interface area. The results are being presented in a two-part article. The results of the priority programme of the Veterinarian and Food Surveillance in Baden-Wuerttemberg were published in Part A (June issue of FLEISCH-WIRTSCHAFT, pages 107-111). The results of the above joint project group of the two LAV work groups AGTT (animal epidemics and animal health) and AFFL (meat and poultrymeat hygiene and sector-specific questions concerning foods of animal provenance) are described in this Part B.