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Paragraph 15 Staining specified risk materialI1

England and Wales Not yet in force

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

The occupier of any premises where specified risk material is removed who contravenes point 11 of Part A of Annex XI to the Community TSE Regulation is guilty of an offence.

(2)

For the purposes of that point—

(a)

staining means treating the material (whether by immersion, spraying or other application) with—

(i)

a 0.5% weight/volume solution of the colouring agent Patent Blue V (E131, 1971 Colour Index No 42051f1); or

(ii)

such other colouring agent as may be approved in writing by the Secretary of State or the Food Standards Agency; and

(b)

the stain must be applied in such a way that the colouring is and remains clearly visible—

(i)

over the whole of the cut surface and the majority of the head in the case of the head of a sheep or goat; and

(ii)

in the case of all other specified risk material, over the whole surface of the material.

(3)

This paragraph does not apply in relation to any specified risk material which is destined for use as provided in Article 1(2)(b) and (c) of the Community TSE Regulation.

Annotations

Commencement

I1

Sch. 6 para. 15 in force at 1.3.2006, see reg. 1

Footnotes

f1

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