7.—(1) No person shall sell any specified risk material, or any food containing specified risk material, for human consumption.
(2) No person shall use any specified risk material in the preparation of food for sale for human consumption.
(3) No person shall sell any specified risk material for use in the preparation of any food for sale for human consumption.
(4) For the purposes of this regulation “specified risk material” includes anything derived from it.
8.—(1) No person shall use the vertebral column of a ruminant animal in the recovery of meat by mechanical means.
(2) No person shall use, in the preparation of food for sale for human consumption, any meat which has been recovered by mechanical means from the vertebral column of a ruminant animal.
(3) No person shall use the vertebral column of a ruminant animal, which has died or has been slaughtered in the United Kingdom and from which meat has been cut, to produce food for sale for human consumption.
9.—(1) No person shall on any premises recover meat by mechanical means from the carcase of a ruminant animal unless his name and the address of those premises are registered with the Minister.
(2) The Minister shall keep a register for the purposes of paragraph (1) above.
(3) An application for registration shall be in writing and in such form and manner as the Minister may require.
(4) The Minister shall refuse to register the name of any person in respect of any premises unless the following particulars are notified to him in writing—
(a)the business name, if any;
(b)the name and address of the person who carries on the business;
(c)the address and telephone number of the business; and
(d)the address of each premises at which meat is recovered by mechanical means from ruminant animals in the course of the business.
(5) Any person whose name is registered shall notify the Minister in writing of any change in the particulars previously notified to him within 14 days of any such change.