# The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations 2006, Paragraph 8: Sheep and goats in a slaughterhouse

Extent: E+W
Status: prospective

(1) When a sheep or goat is slaughtered, the occupier of a slaughterhouse must remove all specified risk material (other than the spinal cord) as soon as is reasonably practicable after slaughter and in any event before post-mortem inspection.
(2) In the case of a sheep or goat aged over 12 months at slaughter, or which has a permanent incisor erupted through the gum, he must as soon as is reasonably practicable after slaughter—
(a) remove the spinal cord at the slaughterhouse before the post-mortem inspection;
(b) send the meat to a cutting plant authorised to remove spinal cord; or
(c) in accordance with the first paragraph of point 13 of Part A of Annex XI to the Community TSE Regulation send the meat to a cutting plant in another member State provided that the Food Standards Agency has entered into a written agreement with the competent authority of the receiving member State, and the despatch is in accordance with that agreement.
(3) Failure to comply with this paragraph is an offence.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/68/schedule/6/paragraph/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/transmissible-spongiform-encephalopathies-regulations-2006/schedule-6/paragraph-8
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