Paragraph 9 Brain stem sampling of bovine animals (other places of slaughter)

The occupier of a place—

(a)

that, for the purposes of point 4.1(a) of Annex V to the EU TSE Regulation (removal of specified risk material), is an other place of slaughter; and

(b)

in which a bovine animal covered by 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 must—

(i)

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

(ii)

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

(iii)

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

and failure to do so is an offence.