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

Environmental Sciences Europe

Table 7 Ranges of channelled dust emissions to air

FDM subsector	Emission source	Average dust concentration over the sampling period (mg/Nm³)
Animal feed	Drying of green fodder	116.2–184.2
Animal feed	Compound feed manufacturing	0.01–59.7
Brewing	Handling and processing of malt and adjuncts	0.02–138.1
Dairies	Drying processes	0.1–198.0
Grain milling	Grain cleaning and milling	0.1–84.0
Oilseed processing and vegetable oil refining	Handling and preparation of seeds, drying and cooling of meal	0.01–48.1
Starch production	Drying of starch, protein and fibre	0.16–78.72
Sugar manufacturing	Drying of beet pulp	1.1–1955.9^a