Explanatory note

The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (England) (No. 2) Order 1986 contains emergency prohibitions restricting various activities in order to prevent human consumption of food which has been or which may have been rendered unsuitable for that purpose in consequence of the escape of radioactive substances from a nuclear reactor situated at Chernobyl in the USSR.

This Order excepts from the prohibition on slaughter in the area designated by that Order and from the prohibition on slaughter and supply throughout the United Kingdom any sheep (and in the latter case any meat derived from such sheep) identified by a red paint mark which have been examined and subsequently marked by an ear-tag by an official of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Scottish Office or Welsh Office (articles 3 and 4).