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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fresh-meat-hygiene-and-inspection-amendment-regulations-1995/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/3189",
  "legislation_title": "The Fresh Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) (Amendment) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fresh-meat-hygiene-and-inspection-amendment-regulations-1995",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Fresh Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations 1995 (the Regulations) to incorporate the amendments made to Council Regulation 64/443/EEC on conditions for the production and marketing of fresh meat by Council Directive 95/23/EC.\nAs well as introducing several minor deregulatory modifications the Regulations make the following principal amendments—\n1 The number of animals of various species which constitute a “livestock unit” is redefined leading to an increase in actual throughput of slaughterhouses operating within the overall low throughput limit of 20 livestock units per week (regulation 2(2)(a)).\n2 Provision is made for the extension in certain circumstances of the deadline for the completion of work needed to bring some premises up to the standard required by the Regulations (regulation 2(9)).\n3 Throughput limits for “low throughput slaughterhouses” are also increased where lambs and kids are slaughtered for religious festivals and, subject to certain conditions, where individual operators use the same slaughterhouse to slaughter on their own account, at separate times during the week, or on behalf of self-employed butchers (regulation 2(10)).\n4 Provision is made for the microbiological testing for salmonella of meat destined for Sweden or Finland (regulation 2(22)).\n5 Provision is made regarding the removal of 14 specified lymph nodes from bovines over two and a half years of age which come from holdings where BSE has been confirmed within the six years prior to slaughter (regulation 2(23)).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/3189/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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