Paragraph 13 Authorisation of cutting plants by the Food Standards Agency
England and Wales
(1)
If the Food Standards Agency is satisfied that the provisions of Annex V and this Schedule will be complied with, the Agency may authorise a cutting plant to—
(a)
remove those parts of the vertebral column of bovine animals that are specified risk material; or
(b)
remove the spinal cord from ovine and caprine animals aged over 12 months at slaughter, or that have a permanent incisor erupted through the gum; or
(c)
harvest the head meat from bovine animals in accordance with point 9 of Annex V.
(2)
The procedures in regulations 7, 9, 10 and 11 apply, but all references to the Welsh Ministers must be construed as references to the Food Standards Agency.