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

Fresh meat etc. derived from vaccinated swine and the unvaccinated seropositive offspring of vaccinated swine slaughtered during phase 3

11.—(1) This paragraph applies to fresh meat, minced meat, mechanically separated meat and meat preparations derived from the following animals slaughtered in a vaccination zone during phase 3—

(a) vaccinated swine; and

(b) unvaccinated seropositive offspring of vaccinated swine.

(2) A person shall not sell or consign for sale meat to which this paragraph applies unless it complies with sub-paragraph (3) or it was produced in an establishment complying with sub-paragraph (4).

(3) Meat complies with this sub-paragraph if it satisfies the following requirements—

(a) it was health marked or identification marked and that mark was overstamped;

(b) after marking, it was at all times stored and transported separately from meat which was not so marked;

(c) it was transported in sealed containers for treatment to an establishment designated by the Department;

(d) it was treated at that establishment so that it falls within paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 6 to the FMD Regulations.

(4) An establishment complies with this sub-paragraph if it—

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

(b) processes only meat falling within sub-paragraph (5); and

(c) at all times during the production process stores, identifies and transports animal products eligible for sale to the final consumer or user separately from those which are not, and in accordance with the directions of the Department.

(5) Meat falls within this sub-paragraph if it comes from animals—

(a) originating in premises which have been declared free of disease under regulation 23(3); or

(b) which were reared and slaughtered outside a vaccination zone.