SCHEDULE 7N.I.SPECIFIED RISK MATERIAL, MECHANICALLY SEPARATED MEAT AND SLAUGHTERING TECHNIQUES

Authorisation of cutting plants by the Food Standards AgencyN.I.

13.—(1) If the Food Standards Agency is satisfied that the provision of Annex V and this Schedule will be complied with, the Agency may authorise a cutting plant to—

(a)remove those parts of the vertebral column of bovine animals that are specified risk material; or

(b)remove the spinal cord from ovine or caprine animals aged over 12 months at slaughter or which have a permanent incisor erupted through the gum; or

(c)harvest the head meat from bovine animals in accordance with point 9 of Annex V.

(2) Regulations 7, 9, 10 and 11 apply, but all references to the Department must be construed as references to the Food Standards Agency.