The Food Safety (Fishery Products and Live Shellfish) (Hygiene) Regulations 1998

Placing processed shellfish on the market

38.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), no person shall place fishery products which are processed shellfish on the market for human consumption unless, prior to processing, there were satisfied in relation to those processed shellfish those of the requirements of regulation 19 to which those products would have been subject if, when they were processed, they had instead been kept for placing on the market as live shellfish.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), regulation 19 shall apply as if, where reference is made in regulation 19(1)(b) to transportation to an approved dispatch centre, reference had also been made to transportation to a processing plant, and the requirements in relation to movement documents and permanent transport authorizations set out in regulation 19(1)(b).

(3) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to imported fishery products which were processed before they were imported.