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Paragraph 7 Bovine animals in a slaughterhouseI1

England and Wales Not yet in force

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(1)

When a bovine animal is slaughtered, the occupier of the slaughterhouse must remove all specified risk material (other than those parts of the vertebral column that are specified risk material) as soon as is reasonably practicable after slaughter and in any event before post-mortem inspection.

(2)

He must consign any meat containing those parts of the vertebral column that are specified risk material as soon as is reasonably practicable to a cutting plant authorised to remove those parts of the vertebral column.

(3)

He must identify meat containing vertebral column that is not specified risk material in accordance with point 14(a) of Part A of Annex XI to the Community TSE Regulation, and provide information in accordance with point 14(b) of that Part.

(4)

No person shall apply the blue stripe referred to in point 14(a) of that Part except in accordance with that point.

(5)

Failure to comply with this paragraph is an offence.

Annotations

Commencement

I1

Sch. 6 para. 7 in force at 1.3.2006, see reg. 1