The Specified Bovine Material (No. 3) Order 1996 No. 1941

Introductory Text
1.Title and commencement
2.Interpretation
3.Approvals
4.Specified bovine material for human consumption
5.Prohibitions applying to the vertebral column
6.Registration of premises on which meat is recovered by mechanical means from bovine animals
7.Specified bovine material for animal consumption
8.Initial treatment of bovine carcases in a slaughterhouse
9.Initial treatment of specified bovine material elsewhere than in a slaughterhouse
10.Rendering whole carcases
11.Exceptions from the requirement to stain specified bovine material
12.Prohibition on the removal of the brain and eyes of a bovine animal
13.Prohibition on the removal of the spinal cord of a bovine animal
14.Prohibition on bringing in specified bovine material from Northern Ireland
15.Consignment of specified bovine material
16.Approved collection centres
17.Approved incinerators
18.Approved rendering plants
19.Approved premises not connected with food and feeding stuffs
20.Veterinary or laboratory premises, etc.
21.Power to give directions
22.Consignment
23.Samples
24.Transport
25.Storage
26.Enforcement
27.Revocation and saving
Signature
1. SCHEDULE 1:
  Rendering requirements
  1. Part I: Requirements to be met where specified bovine material is rendered
  2. Part II: Methods of rendering
    1. Method 1: Natural fat batch atmospheric (150mm particle size)
    2. Method 2: Natural fat batch atmospheric (30mm particle size)
    3. Method 3: Added fat batch atmospheric (30mm particle size)
    4. Method 4: Natural fat batch (batch pressure)
    5. Method 5: Natural fat continuous atmospheric
    6. Method 6: Added fat continuous atmospheric
    7. Method 7: Defatted continuous atmospheric
2. SCHEDULE 2:
  Application of the Order to scheme animals
Explanatory Note