{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fresh-meat-hygiene-and-inspection-regulations-1992/schedule-10/part-IX/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fresh-meat-hygiene-and-inspection-regulations-1992/schedule-10/part-IX/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2037",
  "legislation_title": "The Fresh Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fresh-meat-hygiene-and-inspection-regulations-1992",
  "path": "schedule/10/part/IX/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) If upon inspection of any carcase an inspector or official veterinary surgeon is satisfied that the animal was suffering from any of the following diseases or conditions, he shall condemn the whole carcase and all the offal and blood removed or collected therefrom as being unfit for human consumption—\nActinobacillosis (generalised) or actinomycosis (generalised)\nAnaemia (advanced)\nAnthrax\nBlackleg\nBotulism\nBruising (extensive and severe)\nBrucellosis (acute)\nCaseous lymphadenitis (with emaciation)\nCaseous lymphadenitis (generalised)\nCysticercus bovis (generalised)\nCysticercus cellulosae\nCysticercus ovis (generalised)\nDecomposition (generalised)\nEmaciation\nEnteritis (acute)\nFever\nFoot and mouth disease\nGlanders\nJaundice\nLymphadenitis (generalised)\nMalignant catarrhal fever\nMastitis (acute septic)\nMelanosis (generalised)\nMetritis (acute septic)\nAbnormal odour associated with disease or other conditions prejudicial to health or pronounced sexual odour\nOedema (generalised)\nPericarditis (acute septic)\nPeritonitis (acute diffuse septic)\nPleurisy (acute diffuse septic)\nPneumonia (acute septic)\nPyaemia (including joint-ill)\nRabies\nSalmonellosis (generalised)\nSarcocysts (generalised)\nSepticaemia\nSwine erysipelas (acute)\nSwine fever\nTetanus\nToxaemia\nTrichinellosis\nTuberculosis (generalised)\nTuberculosis with emaciation\nTumours (malignant with secondary growths or multiple)\nUraemia Viraemia\n(2) An inspector or official veterinary surgeon shall condemn as unfit for human consumption any stillborn or unborn carcase and any immature carcase which is oedematous or in poor physical condition, together with any offal or blood removed or collected therefrom.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2037/schedule/10/part/IX/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:17:04.922908+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}