The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Removal of vertebral column

8.  The RMOP must describe the system that, in the case of a bovine animal for which a negative test result has been received, ensures that —

(a)those parts of the vertebral column that are specified risk material are not removed in the slaughterhouse; and

(b)the meat containing that specified risk material is consigned to a cutting plant authorised under paragraph 13 of Schedule 6 to remove it.