The Foot-and-Mouth Disease Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Fresh meat etc. produced on premises in a protection zone

13.—(1) This paragraph applies to fresh meat, minced meat, mechanically separated meat and meat preparations derived from susceptible animals and produced on premises in a protection zone.

(2) A person shall not sell or consign for sale meat to which this paragraph applies or move such meat out of a protection zone unless it has been produced in an establishment which—

(a) is authorised by a licence granted by the Department imposing such conditions as it considers necessary to ensure strict veterinary control of the establishment;

(b) processes only meat falling within sub-paragraph (3); and

(c) at all times during the production process stores, identifies and transports products intended to be eligible for despatch outside the protection zone separately from those which are not, and in accordance with the directions of the Department.

(3) Meat falls within this sub-paragraph if—

(a) it was either—

(i) produced in the protection zone more than 21 days before the earliest infection date there,

(ii) produced from animals reared and slaughtered outside a protection zone, or

(iii) produced from animals transported to the establishment under the authority of a licence granted under paragraph 3(2)(e) of this Part and slaughtered there; and

(b) it is health marked or identification marked.