FOOD MANUFACTURING PLANTS WILL NEED TO CHECK FOR COMPLIANCE WITH NEW EU POLLUTION DIRECTIVE
November 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FOOD manufacturing plants will have to check whether they have the latest pollution reduction equipment by 2012 under a new European Union (EU) industrial emissions directive. This was yesterday (Monday Nov 8) formally approved by the EU Council of Ministers. It covers most food processing plants - meat and dairy product plants making 75 tonnes of products or more per day and vegetable and 300 tonnes of vegetable-based products or more per day. They would have to use "best available techniques" to cut pollutants including sulphur and ...
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