Amendments to the Specified Risk Material Order 1997
2.—(1) The Specified Risk Material Order 1997(1) is amended in accordance with paragraph (2) of this regulation.
(2) In article 4 (specified bovine material), paragraph (1) is substituted by the following paragraph:–
“(1) In this Order, “specified bovine material” means–
(a)in relation to a bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died elsewhere than in Australia or New Zealand, the intestines from the duodenum to the rectum;
(b)in relation to a bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died in the United Kingdom or Portugal at an age greater than 6 months, the following material:–
(i)the entire head (excluding the tongue but including the brains, eyes, trigeminal ganglia and tonsils);
(ii)the thymus;
(iii)the spleen; and
(iv)the spinal cord;
(c)in relation to a bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died in the United Kingdom or Portugal at an age greater than 30 months, the vertebral column (including dorsal root ganglia); and
(d)in relation to a bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died elsewhere than in the United Kingdom, Portugal, Australia or New Zealand at an age greater than 12 months, the following material:–
(i)the skull (including the brains and eyes);
(ii)the tonsils; and
(iii)the spinal cord.”.
S.I. 1997/2964, as amended by S.S.I. 2000/344.