Food, Drink and Milk Industries
This BREF addresses activities for the treatments and processes intended for the manufacture of food products from:
• animal raw materials (other than milk)
• vegetable raw materials, and
• treatment and processing of milk.
The scope includes the whole range of activities that may be found in European installations.

- Download the BREF document (adopted)
- List of Technical Working Group (TWG members)
- List of references used to produce the BREF
- Meeting report
- Translation of the Executive Summary
- Relevant legislation/standard
- Additional technical information


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