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  "title": "Animal By-Products (Identification) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002",
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  "long_title": "These Regulations amend the Animal By-Products (Identification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 (S.R. 1999 No. 418, as already amended) as follows –in regulation 2 (interpretation) –the definitions of “animal by-product premises” and “game processing facility” are amended to exclude cold stores and cutting premises;the definition of “occupier” is extended to include the occupier of a cold store or cutting premises;the definition of “stained” is amended so as to provide that, in the case of animal by-products comprising entire poultry carcases, it means that the stain solution has been applied after the surface of the carcase has been opened by multiple and deep incisions;the definition of “slaughter-house” is amended, and definitions of “cold store” and “cutting premises” are inserted (regulation 2(2));paragraph (a) of regulation 4 (scope) is replaced with a provision which provides that the only whole carcases which have to be sterilised or stained are whole poultry carcases which are dead on arrival at a slaughter-house or which are rejected following pre-slaughter or post-mortem health inspections carried out at such premises (regulation 2(3));the exemption from the requirement as to staining or sterilisation imposed by regulations 6 and 7 which is contained in regulation 5(2)(a) and which operates in favour of poultry by-products is removed and replaced with an exemption which operates in favour of poultry heads and feet which have been subjected to a post-mortem veterinary inspection and which, during the course of the inspection, did not show gross pathological lesions indicating disease communicable to man or animals (regulation 2(4));the exemption from the requirement as to staining or sterilisation imposed by regulations 6 and 7 which is contained in regulation 5(2)(d) and which operates in favour of green offal intended to be removed from animal by-products premises, game processing facilities and slaughter-houses is extended to apply in favour of cold stores and cutting premises also (regulation 2(5));regulation 6 (which currently imposes requirements with respect to the sterilisation and staining of animal by-products in slaughter-houses and game processing facilities only) is replaced with a provision which applies in relation to cold stores and cutting premises also (regulation 2(6));regulation 8 (which currently imposes requirements in relation to freezing animal by-products in animal by-products premises, game processing facilities and slaughter-houses only) is replaced with a provision which applies in relation to cold stores and cutting premises also (regulation 2(7));regulation 9 (which currently imposes requirements in relation to the storage and packaging of animal by-products) is replaced with a provision which imposes requirements with respect to the storage of unsterilised animal by-products in the same room as products intended for human consumption and in cold stores, cutting premises, game processing facilities and slaughter-houses (regulation 2(8)); andregulation 10 (which currently imposes restrictions on the movement of animal by-products from animal by-products premises, game processing facilities and slaughter-houses only) is replaced with a provision which applies in relation to cold stores and cutting premises also (regulation 2(9)).",
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