Stephen Woodgate has been appointed to the position of technical director for the European Fat Processors and Renderers Association (EFPRA).
Working closely with Dirk Dobbelaere, the association’s secretary-general, Woodgate will provide technical expertise to EFPRA members and will help to further develop stronger relationships with government and non-government organizations within the European Union.
Woodgate has been involved with the rendering industry for 20 years and was formerly the technical director of Prosper de Mulder, Ltd., in the United Kingdom. He previously managed his own consultancy company. He is trained as an animal nutritionist and as a product developer in the animal feed industry, receiving an honors degree in applied biology in 1974.
Woodgate has served as chairman of both the Standing Technical Group of EFPRA and the Technical Committee of the United Kingdom Renderers Association. In his current role, he will continue to serve as a member of the scientific advisory panel to the World Renderers Organization.
EPA Releases ELG Final Rule
Six months after establishing new wastewater discharge limits for the meat and poultry products industry (see “EPA Releases Effluent Limitation Guidelines,” April 2004 Render), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a final rule September 8, 2004, in the Federal Register. The rule, “Effluent Limitations Guidelines (ELG) and New Source Performance Standards for the Meat and Poultry Products Point Source Category,” will take effect October 8, 2004.
The final rule revises Clean Water Act effluent limitations guidelines and new source performance standards for meat producing facilities. The revisions apply to existing as well as new slaughtering facilities, facilities that further process meat into products such as sausages, and independent renderers. The rule establishes limitations on wastewater discharges of specified pollutants for facilities that discharge directly to U.S. waters. Indirect discharging plants are not affected by the rule.
For independent renderers, the rule establishes nitrogen maximum limits of 134 monthly and 194 daily and ammonia maximum limits of 0.07 monthly and 0.14 daily.
The rule is available on EPA’s Web site at www.epa.gov/guide/mpp.
Kemin Names Commercial Director, Acquires South African Company
Scott Black has joined Kemin Nutrisurance as commercial director for North American operations. He will be responsible for leading the Nutrisurance business team, including the customer, technical, and laboratory services groups, serving the United States and Canada.
Black previously served as executive vice president and vice president, sales and worldwide marketing at BFI Innovations (formerly Feed Flavors), an ingredient company that supplies the large animal and companion animal industries with flavors and health-enhancing ingredients. Prior to that, he was director of the Consumer Agri-Business Group at Land O’ Lakes Feed and director of sales, marketing, and operations for its Western Feed Division. Black has a bachelor of science degree in agriculture from the University of Delaware.
Kemin Industries, parent company of Kemin Nutrisurance, has acquired Feedad (SA) (Pty.), Ltd., of South Africa, one of the first companies to distribute Kemin products along with their own line of animal feed and nutritional supplements.
Olentine Joins U.S. Poultry
The U.S. Poultry and Egg Association has named Charlie Olentine as executive vice president. Olentine previously served as pub-lisher of the Agribusiness Group of Watt Publishing. He will have overall responsibility for the International Poultry Exposition, held annually each January in Atlanta, GA.
Olentine has a bachelor’s degree in animal science from Cornell University, a master’s degree in animal science from the University of Kentucky, and a doctorate in animal physiology from Clemson University.
Other than serving as director of marketing and communications for the National Feed Ingredients Association in the mid-1980s, Olentine was associated with Watt since May 1978 when he joined the organization as editorial director of the Trade Group. From 1987 to 2003, he served as publisher of the Poultry Group, and was named publisher of the Agribusiness Group this year.
Pro*Cal Plant Breaks Ground
Groundbreaking for the construction of the Pro*Cal, Inc., processing plant to produce the feed ingredient Pro*Cal was held at Southwest City, MO, in late August. Production has taken place since January 2003 in a pilot plant constructed in the interior of an existing production facility. The new 11,000-square-foot building will provide facilities to produce a moist or dry product for use in dairy, pork, or poultry feeding rations. Completion is scheduled for the second quarter of 2005.
Scrapie Eradication Guide for Vets
A new publication, “A Guide to the National Scrapie Eradication Program for Veterinarians” is being distributed to small ruminant practitioners across the United States and is available to other veterinarians and veterinary clinics upon request.
The user-friendly guide is a reference piece on the National Scrapie Eradication Program (NSEP) and scrapie genetics, the use of genotyping in the eradication program. The guide was distributed to members of the American Association of Small Ruminant Practitioners as well as state and federal animal health officials.
Other veterinarians who would like a copy can e-mail Julie Jones at jjones@animalagriculture.org, or download the guide from the Internet at www.animalagriculture.org/scrapie. The Web site also contains other informational resources on the NSEP and scrapie, most of which are aimed at producers.
Sparks Companies Changes Name
The Sparks Companies, Inc., has officially changed its name to Informa Economics, Inc. Sparks was acquired by T&F Informa Group, PLC, a publicly owned British company, in December 2003, and the new name reflects the company’s expanded global role.
Informa Economics (formerly Sparks) serves commercial firms, government agencies, and institutions worldwide with information and consulting services. The company, headquartered in Memphis, TN, operates as part of the T&F Informa Group’s AGRA Informa Division that includes several other major agricultural and food companies.
Stolt-Nielsen Appoints Transportation CEO, Reorganizes
The Stolt-Nielsen S.A. Board of Directors has appointed Otto H. Fritzner as chief executive officer (CEO) of Stolt-Nielsen Transportation Group (SNTG). He most recently served as managing director of Ship Owning at SNTG and succeeds James B. Hurlock, who was named interim chief executive officer of SNTG in July 2003. Hurlock will chair a Stolt-Nielsen board committee that will oversee all legal issues and serve as a director of the company and Stolt Offshore S.A.
Fritzner joined Stolt-Nielsen in 1993 as senior vice president and general manager of Stolt Parcel Tankers, Inc., Ship Owning, where he was responsible for all ship owning issues, including ship management and new buildings. He later was named executive vice president before becoming managing director of Ship Owning at SNTG.
Fritzner will oversee organizational changes at SNTG that are aimed at increasing both the company’s service capabilities to customers and its competitive advantage in the global marketplace for parcel tanker and related services. The planned changes will create the following organizational structure:
• SNTG’s global operations will be organized into three regions: the Americas, administered from Greenwich, CT; Asia-Pacific, administered from Singapore; and Europe, the Middle East, India, and Africa (EMEIA), administered from Rotterdam, the Netherlands, SNTG’s corporate headquarters.
• SNTG’s Indian Ocean Service and the Europe-to-Asia Pacific Service will be operated out of Rotterdam, to be closer to the company’s customers in the fast-growing EMEIA region. Customers in North and South America will continue to be served from Greenwich, SNTG’s second-largest office after Rotterdam.
• Certain staff functions will be relocated to SNTG’s corporate headquarters in Rotterdam.
Two Meat Industries Join Forces
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) Managing Director Mark Spurr and Meat and Wool New Zealand Chief Executive Officer Mark Jeffries have signed a collaborative agreement that will see the two red-meat industries join forces on research and development in the area of meat quality.
The research and development frontier, using electronic and measurement technologies, aims to improve the quality of both beef and lamb at the processing stage while also enhancing processing efficiencies via increased by-product recovery and improved occupational health and safety.
October 2004 Render