Amendment of the TSE (Scotland) Regulations 2002
8. In regulation 33 (removal of specified risk material from carcases in slaughterhouses)–
(a)for paragraph (1), substitute–
“(1) In the case of a bovine animal which is slaughtered in a slaughterhouse, or slaughtered elsewhere then brought to a slaughterhouse to be dressed for human consumption, the occupier of the slaughterhouse shall ensure that–
(a)all specified risk material, excluding the vertebral column, is removed from the carcase as soon as is reasonably practicable after the animal has been slaughtered and before the carcase is presented for inspection pursuant to regulation 37(1);
(b)where the carcase, or any part of the carcase, contains vertebral column which is not specified risk material, the carcase, or that part, is labelled in accordance with point 14(a) of Part A of Annex XI to the Community TSE Regulation; and
(c)where the carcase, or any part of the carcase, is not labelled in accordance with sub paragraph (b), the carcase, or that part is consigned to cutting premises licensed under regulation 55(1)(b)(ii) as soon as reasonably practicable for the removal of the vertebral column at those premises in accordance with regulation 36(1).
(1A) No person shall label the carcase, or any part of the carcase of a bovine animal containing vertebral column which is specified risk material in accordance with point 14(a) of Annex XI to the Community TSE Regulation as if it was a carcase, or part of a carcase, containing vertebral column which is not specified risk material.”; and
(b)omit paragraph (3).