Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

Mammalian protein

11.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person shall not knowingly–

(a)sell or supply for feeding to ruminant animals; or

(b)feed to a ruminant animal,

any feedingstuff in which he knows or has reason to suspect that any mammalian protein has been incorporated.

(2) The prohibitions in paragraph (1) shall not apply to the feeding to an animal of any feedingstuff for research purposes in a research establishment under the authority of a licence issued by the Department and in accordance with any conditions subject to which the licence is issued, or to the sale or supply of any feedingstuff to a research establishment for such purposes.