The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Slaughter and Vaccination) (Scotland) Regulations 2006

Fresh meat etc. derived from vaccinated ruminants slaughtered during phase 2

7.—(1) This paragraph applies to fresh meat, minced meat, mechanically separated meat and meat preparations derived from vaccinated ruminants slaughtered in a vaccination zone during phase 2.

(2) No person shall sell or consign for sale offal to which this paragraph applies.

(3) No person shall sell or consign for sale meat other than offal to which this paragraph applies unless it has been produced in an establishment which–

(a) is authorised by a licence granted by the Scottish Ministers imposing such conditions as they consider necessary to impose strict veterinary control of the establishment;

(b) processes only meat falling within sub-paragraph (4); and

(c) at all times during the production process stores, identifies and transports animal products intended to be eligible for sale to the final consumer or user separately from those which are not, and in accordance with the directions of the Scottish Ministers.

(4) Meat falls within this sub-paragraph if–

(a) it has been–

(i) deboned and matured so that it falls within paragraphs 11 and 12 of Schedule 5 to the Order; or

(ii) obtained from animals reared and slaughtered outside a vaccination zone; and

(b) it is health marked or identification marked.