The Export and Movement Restrictions (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) (Wales) Regulations 2007

Regulation 5

SCHEDULE 4 Additional requirements for meat

1.  Where the meat is from bovine, ovine, caprine or porcine animals or farmed game it must have been transported to the approved slaughterhouse without any contact with any premises situated in the areas not specified in Schedule 3.

2.  The meat must at all times be clearly identified, handled, stored and transported separately from meat not eligible for export.

3.  The meat must be inspected, along with the animal from which it derived, post-mortem by an official veterinarian—

(a) in the slaughterhouse;

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

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

with no clinical signs or evidence of foot-and-mouth disease identified.

4.  The meat must remain in the slaughterhouse, premises or game-handling establishment for at least 24 hours after the post-mortem inspection described in paragraph 3.