# Specified Bovine Material (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order.)
This Order amends the Specified Bovine Material Order (Northern Ireland) 1996. The Order makes the following principal changes—
1 The definition of “mammalian meat and bone meal” does not include processed blood.
2 The definition of “specified bovine material” has been amended to include specified parts of the carcase of a scheme animal, that is to say a bovine animal which has been slaughtered pursuant to the purchase, slaughter and disposal scheme introduced under Commission Regulation (EC) No. 716/96 adopting exceptional support measures for the beef market in the United Kingdom.
3 The prohibition on the sale, supply or feeding to poultry or animals of feedingstuffs in which mammalian meat and bone meal has been incorporated now applies to livestock, fish or equine animals.
4 In a rendering plant—
(a) specified bovine material may come into contact with any animal material from a scheme animal;
(b) equipment used for processing specified bovine material may be used for processing any part of a scheme animal; and
(c) specified bovine material need not be stored, handled and processed separately from animal material from a scheme animal.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/185/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/specified-bovine-material-amendment-order-northern-ireland-1996/note
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