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Find out what methods you can use to process ABPs, how to test your products for bacteria and how to permanently mark high risk material.
Find out how to validate your facility when you seek approval to open, including special requirements for continuous and blood processors.
Form for approval to process animal by-products (ABPs) at your processing facility.
Apply to become an approved authorised treatment facility (AATF) and how to operate legally under the approval.
Find out how to carry out a processing test, which is part of validation for continuous animal by-product processing facilities.
What animal by-products (ABPs) are, how to set up a site that uses them safely, the paperwork you need, and how to dispose of them.
How to get approval for operating plants handling or processing meat in England and Wales.
Find out what animal by-products you can use to make biodiesel, whether you need approval, how to process them and how to use the products.
Find out how to take samples from processed ABPs and find laboratories to test them, and what to do if one of your samples fails a test.
Where you need to apply for approval of a food or meat establishment depending on the type of your establishment and your location.
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