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The notified Mexican Official Standard is binding throughout the national territory and establishes specifications to regulate the use and processing of animal offal and by-products, and the marketing of flour and meal of animal origin and their use in animal feed, in order to ensure that these processes do not constitute an animal health risk with regard to transmissible spongiform encephalopathy.
It applies to natural and legal persons responsible for establishments processing or rendering tissues of animal origin, slaughter, cutting and processing plants that produce offal, whether or not they have their own rendering plant, and establishments marketing meat, bone or mixed flour or meal, whether of domestic or imported origin, as well as those engaged in the manufacture and marketing of animal feed, whether commercially or for their own use.
The Standard does not apply to fat, processed tallow, milk protein, gelatine, fish flour, feather meal or animal blood and its components.
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