§ Baroness Byfordasked Her Majesty's Government:
For each European Union member state, what is the last known date on which farmers fed meat and bone meal to their farm animals. [HL2955]
§ Lord WhittyAn EU-wide ban on feeding proteins derived from mammalian tissues to ruminants was introduced in 1994.
The UK banned ruminant derived meat and bone meal (MBM) from cattle feed in 1988. Other member states introduced feed controls as follows: Austria (mammalian protein to ruminants in December 1990); Denmark (ruminant protein to ruminants in June 35WA 1990); Finland (mammalian protein to ruminants in March 1995); France (mammalian proteins to bovines in July 1990; mammalian proteins to all ruminants in December 1994 and all animal proteins except milk and fish to ruminants in July 1996); Ireland (ruminant proteins to ruminants in August 1990); Netherlands (ruminants proteins to ruminants in August 1989); Sweden (ruminant MBM to ruminants in December 1990 and ruminant proteins to all animals in December 1997). Belguim, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg and Spain had no feed controls in place until the EU-wide ban on mammalian proteins to ruminants in 1994.
From 1 January 2001, Community legislation banned the use of a wide range of processed animal proteins (including meat and bone meal) in feed for all farmed animals.