The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (Amendment No.3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Amendments to the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

10.  In regulation 33 (Removal of specified risk material from carcases in slaughterhouses)—

(a) for paragraph (1), there shall be substituted—

“(1) When a bovine animal is slaughtered in a slaughterhouse, or slaughtered elsewhere and then brought to a slaughterhouse to be dressed for human consumption, the occupier of the slaughterhouse shall ensure that—

(a) all specified risk material, excluding the vertebral column, is removed from the carcase as soon as is reasonably practicable after the animal has been slaughtered and before the carcase is presented for inspection pursuant to regulation 35;

(b) where the carcase or any part of the carcase contains vertebral column which is not specified risk material, that carcase or part—

(i) is labelled in accordance with point 14(a) of Part A of Annex XI to the Community TSE Regulation; or

(ii) is consigned to cutting premises licensed under regulation 56(1) as soon as is reasonably practicable for the removal of the vertebral column at those premises in accordance with regulation 36(1).

(1A) A person shall not label the carcase or any part of the carcase of a bovine animal containing vertebral column which is specified risk material in accordance with point 14(a) of Part A of Annex XI to the Community TSE Regulation as if it were a carcase or part of a carcase containing vertebral column which is not specified risk material.”.

(b) paragraph (10) shall be omitted.