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SCHEDULE 4

PART I

Section BHygiene requirements relating to operating the rendering plant.

6.  Rendering must be carried out either:

(i) so that

(a)material must be heated to a core temperature of at least 133°C for 20 minutes at a pressure of 3 bar. The particle size of the raw material prior to processing must be reduced to at least 50 mm by means of a prebreaker or grinder;

(b)recording thermographs must be provided at the critical points of the heating process to monitor the heat treatment; or

(ii) using any of the systems of heat treatment described in Commission Decision 92/562/EEC(1) subject to the conditions contained in that Decision.

(1)

OJ No. L359, 9.12.92, p.23.