What you need to know to get sheepskins from the abattoir

摘要

It had always been possible to get your sheepskins back for tanning, but then foot-and-mouth happened in 2001 and the Animal By-Products Regulations stated 'no animal skin will be returned to an agricultural holding'.We couldn't have that, and after much toing and froingto Defra, including by myself, mountains of paperwork and hundreds of emails, the Animal By-Products Regulations 2005 came into being. This meant anyone in England could get their skins back with theproduction of a commercial document as a mini hide market; f an intermediate plant.