The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Export and Movement Restrictions) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2007 No. 552

PART 2 Movement and export: animals, meat and meat products

Export of meat: slaughter, handling and inspection

11.—(1) Meat from a domestic animal must, to comply with this paragraph, have been–

(a) obtained in an approved slaughterhouse; and

(b) transported to that slaughterhouse without contact during transport with any holding outside the restricted area.

(2) Meat must, to comply with this paragraph, be at all times clearly identified, handled, stored and transported separately from meat not eligible for export.

(3) Meat must, to comply with this paragraph, be derived from an animal subject to a post-mortem by an official veterinarian–

(a) in the slaughterhouse;

(b) in the case of on-farm slaughtering of farmed game, on the holding; or

(c) in the case of wild game, at the game-handling establishment,

with no clinical signs or evidence of disease identified.

(4) Meat must, to comply with this paragraph, remain in the slaughterhouse, holding or establishment for at least 24 hours after the post-mortem inspection described in paragraph (3).