EFSA APPROVES ANIMAL BY-PRODUCT BIOFUEL
August 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Agency has cleared as safe a new specific thermo-mechanical system for meat production plants, converting certain livestock by-products into bio-fuel, allowing on site heat generation. The system involves shaking the waste in high temperatures to extract water, the resulting waste is then incinerated on site, the heat being fed back into the dryer, and any excess heat is sent to the production plant. Evaporated water is clean enough to be discharged into sewers. EFSA has insisted that for livestock dying from an illness ...
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