Animal By-Products (Identification) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

Amendments to the Animal By-Products (Identification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

7.  In regulation 9 (storage and packaging of animal by-products), for paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following paragraph –

“(3) A person shall not store in any part of any cold store, cutting premises, game processing facility or slaughter-house any animal by-product unless it is placed in a receptacle on which is affixed a conspicuously visible and legible notice containing –

(a) in letters at least two centimetres high, the declaration “Not intended for human consumption”;

(b) in the case of any imported animal by-product, the name of the country from which it was so imported;

(c) in the case of any other animal by-product, the name of the packer and the address at which the animal by-product was packed;

(d) in the case of any animal by-product which is Category 2 material as defined in Article 2.1(c) of the Community Regulation, in letters at least two centimetres high the declaration “Category 2 material”; and

(e) in the case of any animal by-product which is Category 3 material as defined in Article 2.1(d) of the Community Regulation, in letters at least two centimetres high the declaration “Category 3 material”.”.