Will the use of blood products in animal feed jeopardise current controls on animal proteins?
No, because blood is none risk material and is considered as safe tissue to respect to TSE. The ban introduced in 2001 was aimed to ban risk material (bovine meat and bones meal mainly) in the feedstuff of farm animals. Due to the lack of analytical methods at that time to differentiate between animal proteins and species of origin was decided to temporarily ban most of the animal proteins. Today it is well known that for some animal proteins like blood derivatives there are enough analytical methodes available that allow the indentificaion of blood proteins from other animal proteins. They also allow the identification of the specie of origin, allowing the control of aimal feedstuff without jeopardise the use of other animal proteins presently banned. Back to top What about the so called cannibalism restriction? Blood products are excluded from the definition of processed animal proteins (PAP) as are other special proteins: milk, egg, gelatine etc. and are therefore not governed by th
