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Regulation 8 Prohibitions applying to the vertebral column

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(1)

No person shall use the vertebral column of a ruminant animal in the recovery of meat by mechanical means.

(2)

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 ruminant animal.

(3)

No person shall use the vertebral column of a ruminant animal, which has died or has been slaughtered in the United Kingdom and from which meat has been cut, to produce food for sale for human consumption.