Paragraph 8 Brain stem sampling of bovine animals (slaughterhouses)

(1)

The occupier of a slaughterhouse in which a bovine animal which must be tested in accordance with point 2 of Part I of Chapter A of Annex III to the EU TSE Regulation (monitoring in animals slaughtered for human consumption) is slaughtered or (if the animal is slaughtered at a place other than a slaughterhouse) processed must—

(a)

take a sample comprising the brain stem for testing in accordance with point 1 of Chapter C of Annex X to the EU TSE Regulation (sampling);

(b)

ensure that the animal from which the sample has been taken can be identified; and

(c)

arrange for the sample to be delivered to an approved testing laboratory,

and failure to do so is an offence.

(2)

The Scottish Ministers must, by means of a notice, notify the occupier of a slaughterhouse if an animal comes into any of the categories specified in point 2.1 of Part I of Chapter A of Annex III to the EU TSE Regulation (except in the case of a dead animal consigned to a slaughterhouse with a written declaration from a veterinary surgeon that it falls into one of those categories).

(3)

For the purposes of point 5 of Part I of Chapter A of Annex III to the EU TSE Regulation (monitoring in other animals), the Scottish Ministers may serve a notice on the occupier of a slaughterhouse requiring the occupier to take a sample from any bovine animal slaughtered there and send it for testing in accordance with sub�??paragraph (1).