Regulation 5 Amendment of the Specified Bovine Material (Treatment and Disposal) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

In regulation 6 (Initial treatment of bovine carcases in a slaughterhouse)—

(a)

in paragraph (1) for the word “separated” there shall be substituted the word “removed”.

(b)

after paragraph (7) there shall be added the following paragraph—

“(8)

In the case of a scheme animal, the occupier shall ensure that, once the specified bovine material has been removed, the remainder of the carcase (excluding the hide) is stained immediately with a 0.5% weight/volume solution of the colouring agent Tartrazine E102, Colour Index No. 19140^f1, in such a way that the colouring is clearly visible over the whole surface.”.

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f1: Colour Index is published by the Society of Dyers and Colourists at Perkin House, 82 Grattan Road, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD1 2JB