25.06.2010; Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin
Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 lays down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin. It provides, inter alia, that food business operators may place products of animal origin on the market only if they have been prepared and handled exclusively in establishments that meet the relevant requirements of Annex III thereto.
The annexes of this Regulation contain several requirements for (the production of) products of animal origin.
Several annexes of the Regulation have been amended today.
These amendments enter into force on 15.07.2010 and have effects on meat of poultry and lagomorphs, live bivalve molluscs, live echinoderms, live tunicates and live marine gastropods, frozen fishery products, (raw material for the production of) gelatine and collagen.
For gelatine and collagen now there is a specific requirement that the bones used as raw material have to be other than specified risk material as defined in Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.
Vetimpleg explains the consequences.
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