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

Milk and milk products produced from a susceptible animal originating in a surveillance zone or on premises in a surveillance zone

6.—(1) A person shall not sell or consign for sale the milk of a susceptible animal originating in a surveillance zone or any milk product produced from such milk unless it complies with sub-paragraph (2) or (3).

(2) Milk and milk products comply with this sub-paragraph if—

(a) they were produced more than 21 days before the earliest infection date in the associated protection zone; and

(b) they have at all times been stored and transported separately from milk and milk products produced on or after that date.

(3) Milk and milk products comply with this sub-paragraph if—

(a) they have been treated so as to fall within paragraph Part IV of Schedule 6; and

(b) that treatment was carried out either—

(i) in the surveillance zone on premises complying with sub-paragraph (6), or

(ii) outside any protection zone or surveillance zone on such premises as the Department may directs.

(4) A person shall not sell or consign for sale the milk of a susceptible animal produced on premises in a surveillance zone or any milk product produced from such milk unless—

(a) any transport of raw milk from outside the zone and its associated protection zone to those premises complies with sub-paragraph (5); and

(b) those premises comply with sub-paragraph (6).

(5) Transport of raw milk complies with this sub-paragraph if—

(a) the vehicle was cleansed and disinfected on the premises of origin and before loading in accordance with the directions of an inspector; and

(b) the vehicle did not enter any other premises in a protection or surveillance zone where a susceptible animal is kept since that cleansing and disinfection.

(6) Premises comply with this sub-paragraph if they satisfy the following requirements—

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

(b) they are operated so that all milk transported to the premises—

(i) complies with sub-paragraph (3), or

(ii) is transported to the premises for treatment so that it complies with sub-paragraph (3),

(iii) was produced outside the surveillance zone and its associated protection zone;

(c) they are operated so that milk on the premises and leaving the premises is clearly identified as eligible for sale outside the surveillance zone to the final consumer and is at all times stored and transported separately from milk and milk products which are not so eligible.