"Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 (Animal By-Products Regulation) — scope, pet-animal definition and pet-food placing-on-market rules"

Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 (the "Animal By-Products Regulation", ABP Regulation) lays down health rules for animal by-products and derived products not intended for human consumption, and repeals Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002. It is directly relevant to pet food because it defines "pet animal", restricts the feeding of processed animal protein (including the intra-species recycling ban), and sets the conditions under which pet food may be placed on the market. All statements below are copied verbatim from the saved eur-lex source text (OJ L 300/1).

Key provisions relevant to pet food / animal by-products

• The regulation defines a pet animal and excludes by-products from such animals from feed for farmed animals.
• Article 11 prohibits feeding terrestrial animals (other than fur animals) and farmed fish with processed animal protein derived from the same species (intra-species recycling ban).
• Article 35 sets the rules for placing pet food on the market: it must be derived from Category 3 material (with stated exceptions), raw petfood, or — for imported pet food — certain Category 1 material, and must be safely treated where safe sourcing does not suffice.

Claims (verified C1 substrings of source_file)

• ‘pet animal’ means any animal belonging to species normally nourished and kept but not consumed, by humans for purposes other than farming;
• the feeding of terrestrial animals of a given species other than fur animals with processed animal protein derived from the bodies or parts of bodies of animals of the same species;
• the feeding of farmed fish with processed animal protein derived from the bodies or parts of bodies of farmed fish of the same species.
• Placing on the market of pet food
• Operators may place pet food on the market provided:
• from Category 3 material, other than material referred to in Article 10(n), (o) and (p);
• Due to the limited risks arising from materials used as raw pet food on farm or supplied to end users by food businesses, certain activities related to such raw pet food should not be covered by the rules laid down in this Regulation.

Source: pdf-raw/eu-feed-abp/reg_1069_2009_abp.txt (faithful text extraction of the eur-lex official page for CELEX 32009R1069, retrieved via headless browser after solving the AWS WAF JS challenge).