Written answers
Tuesday, 12 February 2008
Department of Agriculture and Food
Rendering Industry
9:00 pm
Martin Mansergh (Tipperary South, Fianna Fail)
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Question 406: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the names and number of rendering plants in operation within the State; the categories of material they are licensed to process; the volumes of materials in both categories handled in the most recent years for which statistics are available; the retrospective proportions of fallen animals and animal by-products treated; the volumes handled by each plant under the destruct scheme; and the amount of materials exported and imported for rendering in recent years. [4492/08]
Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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There are nine rendering plants, approved in accordance with the Animal By-Products (ABP) Regulation (EC) 1774 of 2002, operating within the State. Five of these plants are approved to process Category 1 (and Category 2) material and the remaining four are approved to process lower risk Category 3 material, as defined in the Regulation. Details of these plants, along with the category of material each plant is approved to process, are contained in the following table:
| List of Processing Plants Approved in Accordance with Regulation (EC) 1774 of 2002 | ||
| Approval Number | Name of Plant | Category of material which premises is approved to process |
| R910 | Dublin Products | Category 1 |
| R911 | College Proteins Ltd. | Category 1 |
| R914 | Munster Proteins | Category 3 |
| R915 | Premier Proteins | Category 1 |
| R917 | Slaney Proteins | Category 3 |
| R918 | Western Proteins | Category 3 |
| R919 | Waterford Proteins | Category 1 |
| R921 | Farragh Proteins | Category 3 |
| R922 | Ecosafe Systems Ltd. | Category 1 |
The volumes of Category 1 and Category 3 raw material being processed by the rendering plants, with a breakdown between fallen animals and other ABP material, for the years 2005 to 2007 inclusive, are shown in the table below.
| Raw Material Intake (tonnes) | |||||
| Category 1 | Category 3 | Total | % Fallen Animals | % Other ABP | |
| 2005 | 333,962.41 | 211,590.74 | 545,553.15 | 12.7 | 87.3 |
| 2006 | 367,217.44 | 196,797.96 | 564,015.40 | 13.8 | 86.2 |
| 2007 | 344,306.65 | 205,575.69 | 549,882.34 | 12.3 | 87.7 |
With regard to trade in ABP material for rendering, while a limited amount of material for rendering is being imported from the North, statistics on this trade are not available. The following table shows the amounts of material being exported to the North during the past three years.
| Material Exports to Northern Ireland for Rendering | |||
| Category 1 and 2 (Tonnes) | Category 3 (Tonnes) | Total (Tonnes) | |
| 2005 | 9,893.03 | 10,603.08 | 20,496.11 |
| 2006 | 15,372.62 | 26,609.03 | 41,981.65 |
| 2007 | 24,906.88 | 23,309.20 | 48,216.08 |
With regard to the Purchase for Destruction scheme which operated between January 2001 and June 2001, the rendering of 278,000 animals weighing 83,389 tonnes was carried out by 7 plants, viz: Monery By-Products, Munster Proteins, National By-Products, Premier Proteins, Slaney Proteins, Western Proteins and Ronans. The total cost of this scheme was €29.1million.
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