§ Lord Stanley of Alderleyasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether it is permissible to use bone meal from beef animals on the garden, and if so, whether individuals are allowed to obtain these bones to process into bone meal.
§ Lord DonoughueUnder the Beef Bones Regulations 1997, bovine bones removed from any bone-in beef deboned in Great Britain must be disposed of as animal waste under Part II of Schedule I to the Animal By-Products Order 1992. Such bones will not therefore be available to individual consumers and may not be sold or used in the preparation of any food or ingredient for human consumption. They can however, continue to be used for other purposes such as commercial manufacture of bone meal fertiliser for the garden.