Regulation 4 Production of bovine by-products and consignment and placing on the market of bovine meat, products and certain by-products
No person shall produce any gelatin or collagen, derived from a bovine animal slaughtered in the United Kingdom, which is liable to enter the human food or animal feed chain or is destined for use in cosmetics or medical or pharmaceutical products.
No person shall produce any gelatin or collagen derived from a bovine animal not slaughtered in the United Kingdom, which is liable to enter the human food or animal feed chain or is destined for use in cosmetics or medical or pharmaceutical products, except in an establishment approved by the Minister under regulation 7.
No person shall consign or bring to an establishment registered under regulation 5 below material derived from a bovine animal which includes any part of the vertebral column of such an animal unless he ensures that—
any such material is contained in an impervious container which is clearly labelled to indicate that it contains bovine vertebral column; and
any other material derived from a bovine animal carried in the same consignment is contained in a separate impervious container which is clearly labelled as not containing bovine vertebral column.
No person shall bring to any place in Great Britain, or consign from any place in Great Britain, for the purpose of despatch from Great Britain to a member State or a third country, any fresh meat which has been despatched from an establishment (including a Community approved border inspection post) in Northern Ireland or the territory of another member State unless—
it is accompanied by a veterinary certificate issued by an official veterinarian or a certificate issued by the competent authority in respect of any border inspection post; and
it is transported in an officially sealed vehicle, the seal of which has not been broken except for the purposes of an official inspection.
No person shall bring to any establishment approved under regulation 7 below or consign from any place in Great Britain to such an establishment any product, by-product or material referred to in paragraph (6) below unless the establishment and member State where it was produced are clearly indicated, either by means of a label affixed to it or on its packaging or in a document accompanying it.
The products, by-products and material referred to in paragraph (5) above are—
any gelatin, di-calcium phosphate, tallow, product derived from tallow by saponification, transesterification or hydrolysis, any other tallow product, or any amino acid, peptide or collagen, which is liable to enter the human food or animal feed chain or is destined for use in cosmetics or medical or pharmaceutical products; and
any raw materials for use in the production of any such products,
derived from bovine animals which have not been slaughtered in the United Kingdom.
No person shall store, sell or otherwise supply, or offer, expose or advertise for sale or supply, or consign or despatch to any other person, any product or by-product referred to in paragraph (8) below unless he ensures that—
the establishment at which that product or by-product was produced; and
the unsuitability of that product or by-product for use in human food, animal feed, cosmetics or medical or pharmaceutical products,
is clearly indicated, either by means of a label affixed to the product or by-product or on its packaging or in a document accompanying it.
The products and by-products referred to in paragraph (7) above are any gelatin, di-calcium phosphate, collagen, tallow, products derived from tallow by saponification, transesterification or hydrolysis or any other tallow products, produced otherwise than for human food, animal feed, cosmetics or medical or pharmaceutical products from raw materials derived from bovine animals slaughtered in the United Kingdom.
No person shall place on the market in Great Britain any fresh meat, minced meat, meat preparation or meat product—
which bears an additional mark or the labelling or packaging of which bears an additional mark; or
which bears the mark or label set out in Schedule 3 or 4 to the Northern Ireland Regulations.