Developing EU environmental standards for the food, drink and milk industries: key environmental issues and data collection

Environmental Sciences Europe

Table 3 Ranges of yearly average concentrations of TSS in the effluent of the WWTP [12]

FDM subsector	Yearly average TSS concentration (mg/l)
FDM subsector	Direct discharge	Indirect discharge	Landspreading
Animal feed	4.6–97	91–303	NI
Brewing	2.5–21	1.58–1095	NI
Dairies	0.6–41.4	18–1095	NI
Ethanol production	NI	NI	NI
Fish and shellfish processing	NI	1570	NI
Fruit and vegetables	3–65.3	84	301–1132
Grain milling	NI	NI	NI
Meat processing	0.02–51.2	135–1 440	481.25
Oilseed processing and vegetable oil refining	0.02–166	0.15–153	NI
Olive oil processing and refining	NI	130–300	NI
Soft drinks and nectar/juice	0.05–34.4	29	88
Starch production	5–42.8	29	130–5107
Sugar manufacturing	0.04–128	980	4021
All FDM subsectors	0.02–166	0.15–1440	88–5107