Explanatory note

(This not is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Bovine Offal (Prohbitions) (Scotland )Regulations 1990, as follows:—

• The Regujlations—

  1. (a)

     insert a definition of “animal feeding stuffs” and amend the definition of “processor” to exclude a waste food processor (regulation 4(1));

  2. (b)

     extend the prohibition on the sale of specified bovine offal for human consumption to include any material derived wholly or partly from it (regulation 4(2)

  3. (c)

     remove the exemption from requirements to stain or sterilise specified bovine offal previously given in respect of the premises of a pharmaceutical manufacturer for the manufacture of pharmaceutical products (regulations 4(3), (4) and (7));

  4. (d)

     include provision permitting the stained head of a bovine animal from which the brain has not been removed to be moved to the premises of a processor or to the premises of a person for preparation or storage before further removal to the premises of a processor (regulation 4(5)));

  5. (e)

     prohibit the removal of any meat for human consumption from the head of a bovine animal after the brain has been removed from the head or skull opened (regulation 4(6); and

  6. (f)

     prohibit the removal of the brain from the head of a bovine animal in a slaughterhouse or specialist boning plant except in an area there which is kept free at all times from any food intended for human consumption (regulation 4(6)).

  7. (g)

     remove the provision which allowed remval of any specified bovine offal to the premises of a pharmaceutical manufacturer (regulation 4(7)).