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Dáil Éireann debate -
Thursday, 14 Feb 2002

Vol. 548 No. 4

Written Answers. - Animal Feedstuffs.

Róisín Shortall

Question:

16 Ms Shortall asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Rural Development if licences are issued for the compounding or holding of meat and bone meal for non-ruminants, including pets. [4973/02]

The feeding of processed animal proteins including meat and bone meal to farmed animals which are kept, fattened or bred for the production of food has been prohibited with effect from 1 January 2001 under the provisions of Council Decision 2000/766/EC which was transposed into national legislation under the provisions of the European Communities (Processed Animal Proteins) Regulations, 2000.

The use of meat and bone meal in the manufacture of animal feedingstuffs intended for feeding to animals which are not kept, fattened or bred for the production of food, is prohibited except under licence under the provisions of the Diseases of Animals (BSE)(No. 2) Order, 1996.

Since 1 January 2001, five licences to purchase meat and bone meal under the provisions of the Diseases of Animals (BSE)(No. 2) Order, 1996, have been issued. All of the licences in question were issued to purchasers resident in the UK. A condition of each of these licenses was that the meat and bone meal purchased had to be exported from Ireland in conformity with the conditions of Article 3 of Commission Decision 2001/9/EC which implements the control measures set down in Council Decision 2000/766/EC with regard to the feeding of animal protein. No licences to incorporate meat and bone meal have been issued since 1 January 2001.

The use of meat and bone meal in the manufacture of pet feed has ceased for some years in this country. No licence to purchase or to incorporate meat and bone meal into pet feed intended for feeding to domestic carnivores has been valid since 31 December 1999.

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