Article 6 Prohibitions applying to the vertebral column
No person shall use the vertebral column of a bovine animal in the recovery of meat by mechanical means.
No person shall use, in the preparation of food for sale for human consumption, any meat which has been recovered by mechanical means from the vertebral column of a bovine animal.
Without prejudice to regulation 3 of the Bovine Products (Production and Despatch) Regulations 1997f1, no person shall use the vertebral column of a bovine animal from which meat has been cut, to produce food other than fat or gelatin for sale for human consumption.
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S.I. 1997/389. These Regulations impose restrictions on the use of bovine vertebral column in the production of gelatin, tallow and other by-products for use in food, feeding stuffs, cosmetic, pharmaceutical and medical products.