# The Specified Bovine Material (Treatment and Disposal) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997, Note: Explanatory note

Extent: N.I.

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)
These Regulations revoke and re-make with amendments the Specified Bovine Material (Treatment and Disposal) (No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996. They implement various Directives first specified in the Specified Bovine Offal (Treatment and Disposal) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 and the Mechanically Recovered Meat Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995.
The amendments made by these Regulations are as follows, they—
(a) extend the prohibition on the use of specified bovine material to prohibit its use in cosmetic, pharmaceutical and medical products (regulation 5);
(b) make provision in relation to the removal of the spinal cord from carcases (regulation 8(2));
(c) revise the requirements relating to the disposal of specified bovine material used in research and for teaching purposes (regulation 10); and
(d) revise the requirements relating to the use of specified bovine material at premises unconnected with food, pharmaceutical, medical products and cosmetics (regulation 16).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/230/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/specified-bovine-material-treatment-and-disposal-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/note
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