Animal By-products Factsheets

FABRA UK (The Foodchain and Biomass Renewables Association) represents the majority of the UK Animal By-products processing industry operating across around 20 sites in the UK, processing over 2 million tonnes of UK derived animal by-products per year. 

FABRA UK is the UK’s leading authority on the use, value and biosecurity of edible animal fats and meat industry by-products and we work closely with regulators, livestock producers, meat processors and retailers across the UK.

The animal by-products processing sector has an established and essential role in enhancing the sustainability of the animal-based food supply chain, bringing benefits such as optimal use of resources, waste minimisation, reducing GHG emissions, minimising nutrient leakage and avoiding deforestation. These circular bio-economy benefits are very important to us but will never be detrimental to our core responsibility of ensuring biosecurity and protecting human, animal and environmental health.

Our members recover edible animal fats, valuable proteins and renewable energy from these materials and the derived products have a wide variety of low carbon applications in human food production, animal feeds, fuels, fertilisers and raw materials for the chemical industry.

By working with our partners in the chain we can have a major influence on the sustainability of the animal-based food supply chain from farm to fork.

However, the recycling of animal by-products is often overlooked in discussions on food and food waste, but the treatment of these materials is key to the sustainability of agriculture and food production, reducing the overall carbon footprint of the supply chain. FABRA UK have prepared a series of Factsheets covering this and other topics related to Animal By-products.

You will find these educational and easy to read and they will be useful for our members and our stakeholders in the animal-based food supply chain.

If you have any comments or questions on any of the Factsheets please contact us

 

Fabra UK Factsheets


Figure 1 - product groups from an animal

Figure 1 - product groups from an animal