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The Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Wales) (No. 2) Order 1986 as amended by S.I. 1986/1707, 1756, 1775, 1849, 2242 and 1987/182 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 throughout the United Kingdom any sheep identified by a blue paint mark, and from the prohibition on supply throughout the United Kingdom any meat derived from such a sheep, which are no longer required to be examined and marked with an ear-tag by a person authorised by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food or the Secretary of State for Scotland or the Secretary of State for Wales (article 3).