§ Mr. Martyn JonesTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (1) what data he collated on the movement of mammalian meat and bonemeal from 12 July 1995 to 12 July 1996; and if he will make a statement; [1359]
(2) what data he collated on the movement of mammalian meat and bonemeal from 12 July to 1 August; and if he will make a statement; [1355]
(3) what data he has collated on the movement of mammalian meat and bonemeal since 1 August 1996; and if he will make a statement. [1360]
§ Mrs. BrowningMammalian meat and bonemeal derived from specified bovine material is audited by the State Veterinary Service. No data were collated on the movement of this material during the periods in question which, under the Specified Bovine Materials Order 1996—formerly the Specified Bovine Offals Order 1995—is required to be incinerated or landfilled following production in approved plants. With the introduction of the over-30-months scheme, the Specified Bovine Material Order was amended to allow OTMS carcasses to be processed in SBM rendering lines. As Commission regulation 716/96 requires rendered OTMS material to be destroyed, all of the MBM now produced from these lines is being stored by the Intervention Board pending disposal by the best practicable environmental option. Data collated on the movement of MBM into store during the periods in question are as follows:
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Tonnes 3 May 1996–12 July 1996 7,201 13 July 1996–31 July 1996 15.184 1 August 1996–31 October 1996 67.682 MBM derived from other animal waste is rendered separately in dedicated rendering lines under GB provisions set out in the Animal By-Products Order 1992, as amended. Its production is also audited by the State Veterinary Service. Following the ban on feeding mammalian MBM to all farm animals with effect from 4 April 1996, a proportion of the MBM from this waste stream has been sent by renderers to landfill sites. Some data were collated on the quantities of MBM sent for landfill during part of the periods in question, but these are incomplete and considered unreliable.
Data collated on mammalian MBM, and animal feed containing this, moved under the Government's feed recall scheme during the periods in question is as follows:
Tonnes 12 July 1995–12 July 1996 6,863 13 July 1996–31 July 1996 4,040 1 August 1996–31 October 1996 4