Rendering of specified risk material
66.—(1) The operator of a licensed rendering plant will ensure that specified risk material is processed without undue delay and in any event within seven days of delivery using one of the methods described in Part II of Schedule 6 to these Regulations.
(2) No person shall move from the unclean section of a licensed rendering plant, as so specified by the occupier in accordance with paragraph 3 of Part I of Schedule 6 to the Regulations, into the clean section as so specified without first changing the working clothes and footwear of that person and disinfecting the latter.
(3) The operator of a licensed rendering plant shall ensure (except as provided by paragraph (4) below) that any equipment used for processing specified risk material is used only for that purpose.
(4) Subject to paragraph (5) below, the Scottish Ministers may, on application by the operator of a licensed rendering plant, consent to the use for other purposes of equipment previously used for processing specified risk material.
(5) No consent given under paragraph (4) above shall be effective until the Scottish Ministers have indicated in writing that they are satisfied that the equipment concerned has been cleaned in accordance with any conditions specified in that consent.
(6) No person shall take equipment or utensils from the unclean section of a licensed rendering plant into the clean section of a licensed rendering plant unless that equipment and those utensils are first washed and disinfected.
(7) The occupier of a licensed rendering plant shall ensure that systematic measures are taken to control birds, rodents, insects and other vermin on the premises.
(8) The occupier of a licensed rendering plant shall ensure that the premises and equipment on the premises are kept in a good state of repair and that measuring equipment is regularly calibrated.