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Paragraph 6

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

Where an inspector or OVS is satisfied—

(a)

that a carcase or offal is affected with caseous lymphadenitis or any other suppurative condition; but

(b)

that the condition is not generalised nor associated with emaciation, he shall reject the following parts of the carcase and offal as unfit for human consumption—

(i)

any organ and its associated lymph node, when the condition exists on the surface or in the substance of that organ or lymph node; and

(ii)

when it does not so exist, the lesion and such of the surrounding parts as he may think proper having regard to the age and degree of activity of the lesion.

(2)

For the purposes of sub-paragraph (i) and (ii) above, an old lesion which is firmly encapsulated may be regarded as inactive.