The State will face new waste disposal problems if the EU Commission accepts the proposals from the scientific committee.
The committee has recommended that meat and bone meal should not be fed to animals. It is unlikely Ireland will be able to export its meat and bonemeal, so it will have to be disposed of.
The committee also recommended that intestines of infected animals be removed, as well as the head and spinal cord. Until last month the head and spinal cord, known as specified risk material, were buried in lime on the farm where the outbreak occurred.
However, fears over the possible contamination of public water supplies led the Minister for Agriculture, Mr Walsh, to say that this specified risk material would no longer be buried.
According to a spokesman for Mr Walsh, permanent cold-storage facilities are now being sought by Department officials.
He said incineration was the obvious disposal method for hazardous waste but the Department was examining all options.
