The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Scotland) Order 2006

Other animal products produced in a protection zone or a surveillance zone or from animals originating in such a zone

9.—(1) This paragraph applies to animal products other than–

(a) fresh meat, minced meat, mechanically separated meat and any meat preparation;

(b) milk and any milk product;

(c) semen, ova and embryos;

(d) hides and skins; and

(e) wool, ruminant hair and pig bristles,

if it is produced in a protection zone or surveillance zone from susceptible animals, or from susceptible animals originating in a protection zone or surveillance zone.

(2) No person shall sell or consign for sale any animal product to which this paragraph applies unless it satisfies one of the following requirements–

(a) it was–

(i) produced more than 21 days before the earliest infection date within the protection zone, or in the case of a surveillance zone, the associated protection zone, and

(ii) at all times stored and transported separately from animal products not so produced;

(b) it has been treated so that it falls within paragraph 4 of Schedule 5;

(c) where it is referred to in one of paragraphs 5 to 9 of Schedule 5, has been treated so that it falls within that paragraph;

(d) it forms part of a composite product (that is, a manufactured or processed product containing more than one ingredient at least one of which is an animal product) not subject to further treatment and has either–

(i) been treated to ensure the destruction of disease, or

(ii) not been produced from susceptible animals originating on infected premises, suspect premises or contact premises or in a temporary control zone, protection zone or surveillance zone or vaccination zone;

(e) it is a packaged product ready for use–

(i) as a reagent, reagent product, calibrator, kit or any other system (whether used alone or in combination),

(ii) in vitro for the examination of samples of human or animal origin (with the exception of donated organs or blood), and

(iii) solely or principally with a view to the diagnosis of a physiological state, state of health, disease or genetic abnormality or to determine safety and compatibility with reagents.