The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Mechanically recovered meat

4.—(1) Any person who contravenes point 3 of Part A of Annex XI of the Community TSE Regulation (use of bovine, ovine and caprine bones for the production of mechanically recovered meat) is guilty of an offence.

(2) Any person who uses any mechanically recovered meat produced in contravention of that point in the preparation of any food for sale for human consumption or of any feedingstuff is guilty of an offence.

(3) In this paragraph “mechanically recovered meat” means the product derived from residual meat on animal bones by mechanical means other than meat produced using hand held powered knives that do not use powered pressure or suction.