17.—(1) Any person delivering specified bovine offal to an approved rendering plant shall state in writing to the operator of the rendering plant concerned the place from which that specified bovine offal was collected for delivery to that rendering plant.
(2) No person shall take delivery of specified bovine offal at a rendering plant, or operate a rendering plant for specified bovine offal, unless it has been approved by the appropriate Minister as having the facilities specified in Part I of the Schedule to this Order sufficient to enable it to separate the specified bovine offal into protein and tallow by one of the methods specified in Part II of that Schedule.
(3) The operator of an approved rendering plant shall record on arrival of specified bovine offal at the premises—
(a)the weight of the specified bovine offal delivered;
(b)the date of delivery; and
(c)the place from which it was consigned,
and shall keep such records for two years from the date of arrival.
(4) The operator of an approved rendering plant shall ensure that all specified bovine offal in the rendering plant is kept and stored separately from all other material, handled separately from other material and rendered separately from other material.
(5) The operator of an approved rendering plant shall ensure that specified bovine offal is processed without undue delay and in any event within seven days of delivery using one of the methods described in Part II of Schedule to this Order.
(6) The operator of an approved rendering pant shall ensure that any equipment used for processing specified bovine offal is used only for that purpose.
(7) After the specified bovine offal has been processed and separated into protein and tallow the operator of the plant shall ensure that—
(a)all protein is placed in a container labelled “specified bovine offal” and disposed of—
(i)by burial at a landfill site for which there exists a current waste management licence granted under section 35 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990;(1) or
(ii)as specified in the approval; or
(iii)sent to an approved incinerator for incineration; and
(b)all tallow is placed in a container labelled “specified bovine offal”and—
(i)disposed of by burial at a landfill site for which there exists a current waste management licence granted under section 35 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990; or
(ii)sent for purposes not connected with the preparation of food or feedingstuffs; or
(iii)sent for treatment by thermal hydrolysis at hyperbaric pressure.
(8) The operator of an approved rendering plant shall keep a record for two years of the weight of protein consigned and a separate record of the weight of tallow consigned, and in each case the date of such consignment and the point of destination.
(9) The operator of an approved rendering plant shall ensure that all containers, receptacles and vehicles which have been used for the transport of specified bovine offal are cleaned, washed and disinfected before they leave the premises.
(10) No person shall move from the unclean section of an approved rendering plant (as specified by the occupier in accordance with paragraph 3 of Part I of the Schedule to this Order) into the clean section without first changing their working clothes and footwear or disinfecting the latter.
(11) No person shall take equipment or utensils from the unclean section into the clean section of an approved rendering plant unless the equipment or utensils are first washed and disinfected.
(12) The operator of an approved rendering plant shall ensure that systematic measures are taken to control birds, rodents, insects and other vermin on the premises.
(13) The operator of an approved rendering plant shall ensure that the premises and equipment are kept in a good state of repair and that measuring equipment is calibrated at regular intervals.