Please Check Back – Follow Health Guidance
In 2024, the EPA published a proposed regulation to revise existing Effluent Limitation Guidelines (ELGs) and pretreatment standards for the meat and poultry products (MPP) industry. The MPP industry includes meat and/or poultry slaughter facilities, further processing, or rendering. The industry also produces pet food and animal feed. In August 2025, the EPA decided not to move forward with additional ELGs or pretreatment standards for this industry. Published before this decision, you may find value in managing local or state regulations during this educational video.
Localities and states are also looking at the proposed federal guidelines to determine effluent limitations. Even though the federal proposed guidelines are aimed at the meat and poultry industry, some of the categorical waste streams could impact the food and beverage industry at the local or state levels. If meat or poultry is an ingredient, you’ll want to ensure your operation’s waste stream is correctly categorized.
Webinar Focus
SCS Engineers provided a webinar to help the industry understand the implications of ELG guidelines and its impact on local regulations. Dr. Todd DeJournett covers new regulations and stricter limits on nitrogen and the proposed phosphorus limits, pretreatment for oil and grease, total suspended solids, and biochemical oxygen demand. He also covers how your category can impact operations in the meat and poultry industry and the food and beverage industry.
Webinar Benefits
Attendees will better understand the compliance requirements, which will help determine your next steps to determine potential technical solutions, capital requirements (new equipment, & training), and the impact on operational costs from new waste streams. Early strategies are a significant asset, as states and localities are also beginning to impose stricter wastewater limitations, which could slow down the permitting process for your operation.
Who Should View and Your Privacy
The SCS webinars allow facility management, environmental, and sustainability staff to prepare for stricter guidelines.
This educational, non-commercial webinar with Q&A is free and open to all who want to learn more about EPA’s proposed effluent limitation guidelines.
Dr. Todd DeJournett is a Professional Engineer specializing in industrial water and wastewater treatment process design and effluent guideline regulatory policy. He has over 20 years of experience helping clients in the manufacturing industry make sound water and wastewater treatment and reuse plans and decisions. Dr. DeJournett developed new chemical modeling approaches and tools for adsorption, precipitation, pH adjustment, and other processes to assist with treatment process design, optimization, and troubleshooting of existing systems. He also adapted exploratory statistics/data mining methods using process and instrumentation data to aid in wastewater treatment process optimization/ troubleshooting.
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