M311N Animal & Vegetable Fats and Oil (Production, Consumption

CURRENT INDUSTRIAL REPORTS SERIES
2008

M311N — ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE FATS AND OILS
(PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTION, AND STOCKS)
DEFINITIONS AND SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS

1. Scope of survey

4. General definitions

This survey covers establishments producing or
consuming major edible and inedible fats and oils and
warehouses storing these products.

a. Production — Report the quantities of the specified
primary fats and oils and end products produced during
the month.

2. Figures to be reported

b. Consumption — Report the quantities of crude oil
consumed in the production of once-refined oil. Also
report the quantities of crude oil and once-refined oil
consumed directly in the production of listed end
products during the month.

Companies with more than one establishment
manufacturing the products covered by this survey are
requested to complete a separate report form for each
location. If you have not received a separate form for
each of your establishments, please call the contact
shown on the report form or write to the U.S. Census
Bureau for additional forms.

c. Stocks — Report the quantities of the specified
prim ary fats and oils and end products stored at this
location on the last day of the month.

You should report on this form if your plant operations
involve:

Include
Stocks stored at this location regardless of ownership
including government agencies such as the
Commodity Credit Corporation.

Refining of any of the specified vegetable oils. Note:
If your operations also involve the crushing or
solvent processing of any vegetable oil bearing raw
materials, you should also report on Census Form
M311J, "Oilseeds, Beans, and Nuts, Monthly Report
of Primary Processors."
Production and consumption of any of the specified
animal fats. Note: If you produce but do not
consume animal fats, you may report on Census
Form M311L, "Fats and Oils, Monthly Report of
Renderers."

Shipments in transit to this establishment on the last
day of the month. For example, if a shipment arrived
on the 3rd of February and you know that it was in
transit for 5 days, include the oil in your January 31
stocks report.
Exclude
Outgoing shipments once they have left your
establishm ent.

Production of any of the fats and oils products
specified in Reference List A, part II.

Stocks owned by you that are held elsewhere, such
as public or private warehouses not located at the
processing location. These stocks should be
reported for each location on Census Form M311H,
" Animal and Vegetable Fats and Oils (W arehouse
Stocks)." If you are not filing a Form M311H for
such locations, please notify us and we will send you
the necessary report forms.

In addition, a limited num ber of large consumers of fats
and oils are selected by the Census Bureau to report on
Form M311N instead of on closely related Form
M311M , "Fats and Oils, Monthly Report of
Consum ers."
Reference List A is a list of fats and oils collected on
this survey. Reference List B specifies the items of
information required for these fats and oils.

5. Special instructions
a. Animal fat renderers and consumers

If you begin to consume, process, or store an oil
which has not been preposted on the form, post it on
the blank lines. If you are reporting in the "All Other
Fats and Oils" category, review this each month to
make sure it does not include oils specifically listed
which should be reported separately.

Production — Report lard, edible tallow, inedible
tallow, yellow grease, other grease, feather meal,
meat and meat and bone meal, dry rendered tankage,
poultry fat, poultry by-product meal, and all other
products rendered during the month.

3. Unit of measure

Consumption — Report all lard, edible tallow, inedible
tallow, yellow grease, and other grease consumed in
end products during the month. Production of end
products, i.e., baking or frying fats and fatty acids,

Report all quantities in thousands of pounds.

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DEFINITIONS AND SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS — Continued

5. Special instructions — Continued

Do not report

must also be reported. For example, if you render
edible tallow and refine it into shortening you must
report:

Production of crude oil — These figures should be
reported on Census Form M311J.
Consumption — Report the quantities of crude oil
consumed in the once-refining process.

C Edible tallow production, item code 7200
C Edible tallow consumed in shortening, item
code 7241

Consistency check:

C Baking or frying fats (shortening), 100% animal
fats or blends, production, item code 8200.

The quantity of crude oil consumed in refining should be
approximately equal to the quantity of refined oil produced
(less an allow ance for refining loss).

Note: Edible tallow, inedible tallow, yellow grease, and
other grease producers who ship their product directly
to livestock and poultry feed mixers in the U.S. must
also report this as consumption (End use 23).

The quantity of crude vegetable oils consumed in refining
should not be reported as crude oil consumed in end
products.

Stocks — Report quantities of rendered products and
end products stored at your facility at the end of the
month.

Stocks — Report quantities of crude and once-refined
vegetable oil stored at your establishment on the last day
of the month. Note: Continuous processors who already
reported stocks of crude oil on the Census Form M311J
should report only their refined oil stocks on this form.

Include
Rendered and refined lard
Rendered and refined tallow and grease

c. Edible product producers

Stocks and consumption of edible and inedible animal
stearin, as well as edible and inedible hydrogenated
animal fats, should be reported as stocks and
consumption of the basic animal fat from which they
originated.

Production — Report the quantities of baking and frying
fats (shortening), salad or cooking oil, and margarine
produced during the month. See definitions below.
Note: Do not report production of margarine oil.
Consumption — Report the quantities of once-refined
vegetable oil or animal fats consumed in salad or cooking
oil, baking or frying fats, margarine, and other edible
products, during the month. Note: Consumption figures
should be closely related to production, with the only
difference being the refining loss.

Special definitions for renderers
Meat meal and meat and bone meal is the finely
ground, dry rendered residue from mammal tissues
exclusive of hair, hoof, horn, hide trimmings, blood
meal, manure, and stomach contents, except in such
traces as might occur unavoidably in good factory
practice.
Feather meal (hydrolyzed poultry feathers) is the
product resulting from the treatment under pressure of
clean, undecomposed feathers from slaughtered
poultry. Poultry by-products meal consists of the
ground dry rendered or wet rendered clean parts of the
carcass of slaughtered poultry, such as heads, feet,
undeveloped eggs, and intestines, exclusive of feathers.
All other products includes blood meal. Blood meal is
ground and/or screened dry blood.

Stocks — Report quantities of edible products stored at
this establishm ent on the last day of the month. Note:
Stocks and consumption of vegetable oil stearin should be
reported as stocks and consumption of the basic refined oil
from which it originated.
Special definitions for edible product producers
Salad or cooking oils — Products which meet all of the
following conditions:
Manufactured from vegetable oils
Deodorized or winterized and deodorized
Completely liquid at room tem perature

b. Vegetable oil refiners
Include
Production — Report the quantities of once-refined oil
produced during the month.

Clear oils sold to establishments making potato chips,
bakery products, blended table oils, and salad
dressings.

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DEFINITIONS AND SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS — Continued

Special definitions for edible product producers —
Continued

Include
Bar, flake, granulated, and liquid soap

Oils refined and deodorized by mayonnaise and salad
dressing producers for use in the plant. Do not
report in "Other edible products."

Exclude
Synthetic detergents, shampoos, metallic soaps, and
wetting agents

Baking or frying fats (shortening) — Products which
meet all of the following conditions:

f. Glycerin producers
Produced or sold entirely for baking or frying
purposes

Include both crude and refined glycerin from natural or
synthetic sources. Natural glycerin is a product of
soapmaking, fatty acid production, or any other fat
splitting process. Synthetic glycerin is produced from
sources other than fats and oils.

Manufactured from vegetable oils or meat fats or
combinations thereof
Deodorized or hydrogenated and deodorized

g. Producers of paints, varnish, and drying oils
Exhibit consistencies which may be fluid, plastic, or
solid at room tem perature

Oils used to produce drying oils should be reported under
"Other inedible products." Subcategory "Drying oils,"
applies if the oils are packaged for sale to paint
contractors and individual users.

This category includes mono- and di-glycerides. It also
includes hardened and deodorized lard, other hardened
and deodorized fats or fractionated fats produced or
sold entirely or primarily for baking or frying purposes.

For paint and varnish (End use 52):

Margarine — refers only to the finished product ready
for table use or use by bakers.

Include
Oils used to make paints, varnishes, enamels, lacquers,
and similar products.

Margarine oil — refers to the product from which
margarine is made.

Exclude
Stocks of margarine oils consum ed in end products
should be reported as the stocks and consumption of
the oil or oils from which it originated.

Oils used to produce drying oils and sold as such
Oils sold for use in paint resin

d. Shipments to feed mixers

Drying oils held in bulk storage or sold to
manufacturers of paint, printing ink, and linoleum
producers are considered intermediate products. Their
stocks and consumption should be reported as stocks
and consumption of the primary fat or oil from which
they originated.

Producers of edible tallow, inedible tallow and grease
and vegetable oils
Include
Direct shipments of edible tallow, inedible tallow and
grease and vegetable oils to livestock and poultry
feed mixers in the U.S.
Exclude
Shipments to fat reprocessors

h. Producers of methyl esters (biodiesel)
Report the consumption of fats and oils used to produce
biodiesel in “Consumed in methyl esters”. Report the
production of the crude glycerin byproduct of the
transesterification process in item 8400. Stocks of the
final product should not be reported as stocks of the
feedstock.
i. Tall oil producers and consumers

e. Soap makers
Fats and oils used to make soap products should be
reported in "Other inedible products." Soap makers who
split fats as the first step in soap making should report
both the consumption of fats and oils consumed
entirely in soap and the production and stocks of
glycerin.

If refined or distilled tall oil is used in the production of
other products, its use should be reported according to
the end uses listed in Reference List B of these
instructions.

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DEFINITIONS AND SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS —
Continued

i. Tall oil producers and consumers — Continued
Type of process used
Acid refining process — Report quantities of crude or
whole tall oil processed as consumed in "Refining" (End
use 31).
Distillation or fractionation process — Report
quantities of crude or whole tall oil processed as
consumed in "Fatty acids" (End use 57).
In addition, report the production and stocks of the
following:
Refined or distilled tall oil (containing less than 90%
free fatty acids, excluding rosin acids)
Tall oil fatty acids (containing 90% or more free
fatty acids, excluding rosin acids)
Exclude Other products such as rosin.

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REFERENCE LIST A— FATS AND OILS
Combine the item codes from Reference Lists A and B so that the first two digits represent the oil or oil product and the
last two digits represent the stocks or end use.
FORM M311N

ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE FATS AND OILS
(PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTION, AND STOCKS)
Product
code

Item
code
Prefix

Item description

I. Primary fats and oils Report stocks, production (except crude vegetable oils, and
consumption in making end products)
3112231100

02

Cottonseed, crude

3112234100

07

Cottonseed, once refined

3112221151

12

Soybean, crude (include degummed, blown, boiled, heat treated, and acid refined)

3112221231

15

Soybean, once-refined

311223H151

22

Linseed, raw and boiled

311223H102

24

Linseed, all other

311223H101

26

Coconut, crude

311223H102

28

Coconut, refined

311223H152

31

Tung oil

3112218111

34

Corn, crude

3112218125

36

Corn, once-refined

311223H101

39

Peanut, crude

311223H102

41

Peanut, once-refined

311223H166

44

Palm, crude

311223H102

45

Palm, refined

311223H167

47

Palm kernel, crude

311223H185

49

Palm kernel, refined

311223H168

56

Rapeseed (canola), crude

311223H186

57

Rapeseed (canola), refined

311223H101

51

Sunflower, crude

311223H102

53

Sunflower, once refined

311223H196

54

Castor, crude No. 1 and No. 3 (include chemically dehydrated castor oil)

3116135271

59

Vegetable foots, raw and acidulated (100% basis)

311223H169

62

Safflower, crude

311223H187

64

Safflower, once refined

311611D131

71

Lard, including rendered pork fat (include lard stearin)

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REFERENCE LIST A — FATS AND OILS — Continued
Combine the item codes from Reference Lists A and B so that the first two digits represent the oil or oil product and the
last two digits represent the stocks or end use.
FORM M311N

ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE FATS AND OILS
(PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTION, AND STOCKS)
Product
code

Item
code
Prefix

Item description

I. Primary fats and oils — Continued
311611R131

72

Tallow, edible (including oleo stock and edible animal stearin)

3116132112

75

Tallow, inedible (including inedible animal stearin)

3116132132

89

Grease, yellow

3116132141

92

Grease, other (other than wool grease)

3116135111

93

Meat meal, and meat and bone meal, and dry rendered tankage

3116135271

94

Poultry fats

3116135281

95

Poultry by-products meal

3116135231

96

Feather meal

3116135291

98

All other products including blood meal and raw products for pet food

3117124415

77

Fish oil (except cod or liver) and marine mammal oil (except sperm) include refined and
hydrogenated

3251910125

86

Tall oil, crude (report product also)

3251910235

87

Tall oil, refined or distilled (containing less than 90% free fatty acids not including rosin
acids)

311223H195

68

All other primary fats and oils (report consumption only — Enter a single figure but list
the primary fats and oils such babassu, oiticica, etc.)

II. Fats and oils products — (Report only stocks and production)
3112252811

81

Baking or frying fats (shortening), 100% vegetable oil

3112252821

82

Baking or frying fats (shortening), 100% animal fat or blends of vegetable oil and animal
fat

3112254100

83

Margarine

325611A111

84

Glycerin, crude, 100% basis (report consumption in refining)

325611A131

85

Glycerin, refined (all grades 100% basis)

3251991191

88

Fatty acids (all types)

3112252845

16

Soybean cooking or salad oil (fully refined and deodorized oil)

3112252885

17

All other cooking or salad oil (fully refined and deodorized oil)

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REFERENCE LIST B
INFORMATION TO BE REPORTED ON FATS AND OILS CONTAINED IN REFERENCE LIST A
FORM M311N

ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE FATS AND OILS
(PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTION, AND STOCKS)
Item code
suffix

Item description

10

Stocks, last day of the month (include winter stearin in stocks of refined cottonseed oil)

00

Production

XX

Total consumption

31

Consumed in alkali refining or similar processes
Consum ed in following end products:

41

Baking or frying fats (shortening)

42

Salad or cooking oils

43

Margarine

44

Other edible products (e.g., confectionery fats, mellorine fats, whipped topping. If you produce more
than one of these products, name each but report a combined figure)

23

Direct shipments to livestock and poultry feed mixers in the U.S. (exclude shipments to fat
reproducers)

51

Soap (do not include synthetic detergents, shampoos, metallic soap, wetting agents)

52

Paint and varnish, stain, enamel, and similar products (do not include drying oils sold as such)

53

Animal feeds

54

Methyl esters

55

Resins and plastics (including alkyd resins and plasticizers)

56

Lubricants and similar oils (specify kind: lubricant, grease, ocre oil, hydraulic brake fluid, metal
work and treatment, cutting oil, dielectric oil)

57

Fatty acids (all types)

58

Inks (all types)

59

Other inedible products (if you produce more than one miscellaneous product, name each but report a
combined figure)
Examples of other inedible products:
Cosmetic
Drying oils (packaged for sale to painting contractors and individual users)
Glazing and caulking compounds
Hydrogenated castor oil
Linoleum
Pharm aceuticals
Polishes and waxes
Rubber and rubber products
Sulfonated oils
Sulfonation and the production of sebacic acid
Synthetic organic detergents
Toilet preparations including shampoos

1/29/08

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