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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fresh-meat-hygiene-and-inspection-regulations-1995/schedule-14/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/539",
  "legislation_title": "The Fresh Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fresh-meat-hygiene-and-inspection-regulations-1995",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The occupier of the cold store shall ensure that—\n(a) where unwrapped fresh meat or fresh meat wrapped only in stockinette is brought into the cold store for freezing it is not stored on wooden pallets and that during freezing it is suspended from either a rail system or suitable frames of a material resistant to corrosion;\n(b) unfit meat is not stored in the same room as other fresh meat;\n(c) unpackaged fresh meat is stored separate from, or at other times than, packaged fresh meat; and\n(d) unpackaged fresh meat is stored in a separate room, or at other times than, unpackaged pountry meat, farmed rabbit meat, wild game meat, minced meat, meat preparations, meat products or fresh meat originating from premises operating under a temporary derogation granted by the Minister in accordance with Council Directive 91/498/EEC.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/656",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2000/62",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) (Scotland) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/3189",
      "affecting_title": "The Fresh Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) (Amendment) Regulations 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/2148",
      "affecting_title": "The Wild Game Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations 1995"
    }
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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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