Paragraph 3

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

Sch. 10 Pt. 9 para. 13 14 words substituted by Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) 2000 Sch. 4 Pt. 3 para. 2(1)(2)
Sch. 10 Pt. 9 para. 13 14 words substituted by Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) 2000 Sch. 4 Pt. 3 para. 2(1)(2)
Sch.10, Pt.IX, para.1(1) amended by Fresh Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) 1995 reg.2(21)
Sch.10, Pt.IX, para.15 added by Fresh Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) 1995 reg.2(22)

An inspector of OVS shall, in determining for the purposes of this Part of this Schedule whether tuberculosis is generalised, take into account the sum of the evidence of disease and the character of the lesions throughout the carcase and, in particular, shall regard evidence of any of the following conditions as satisfactory evidence of generalised tuberculosis—

(a)

military tuberculosis of both lungs with evidence of tuberculosis elsewhere;

(b)

multiple and actively progressive lesions of tuberculosis;

(c)

widespread tuberculosis infection of the lymph nodes of the carcase;

(d)

diffuse acute lesions of tuberculosis of both the pleura and peritoneum associated with an enlarged or tuberculous lymph node of the carcase;

(e)

active or recent lesions present in substance of any two of the following: spleen, kidney, udder, uterus, ovary, testicle, brain and spinal cord or their membranes, in addition to tuberculosis lesions in the respiratory and digestive tracts; and

(f)

in the case of a calf, congenital tuberculosis.