The Fresh Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations 1995

Animals not intended for sale for human consumption

7.—(1) A person may use any slaughterhouse or farmed game handling facility, or cause any such premises so to be used, for the slaughter of an animal the meat derived from which is not intended for sale for human consumption if—

(a) one of the emergency slaughter conditions is satisfied; or

(b) neither of the emergency slaughter conditions is satisfied but the private kill condition is satisfied.

(2) The emergency slaughter conditions are—

(a) that the animal has incurred an injury whilst in transit necessitating its slaughter;

(b) that the animal is slaughtered by reason of the provisions of regulation 21 or, in Scotland, 11 of the Humane Conditions Regulations (animal in pain etc).

(3) The private kill condition is that it is not intended that meat derived from the animal shall be sold for human consumption.

(4) No person shall use any slaughterhouse or farmed game handling facility, or cause any such premises so to be used, for the slaughter of any animal whose meat is not intended for sale for human consumption unless the case falls within paragraph (1) above.

(5) An animal whose meat is not intended for sale for human consumption may only be slaughtered in a slaughterhouse or farmed game handling facility if it is slaughtered in a different room or at a different time from any animal whose meat is intended for sale for human consumption.

(6) The operator must take appropriate steps to prevent contamination of fresh meat in a slaughterhouse or farmed game handling facility in consequence of the slaughter there of an animal whose meat is not intended for sale for human consumption.

(7) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (6) above, the slaugtherhall must be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected after such an animal has been slaughtered in it.

(8) Meat from an animal falling within paragraph (1)(b) above must be stored separately from meat intended for sale for human consumption.

(9) The carcase of an animal falling within paragraph (1)(b) above many only be dressed in a slaughterhouse if the animal was slaughtered there.

(10) Such a carcase must be dressed in a different room or at a different time from carcases of animals whose meat is intended for sale for human consumption.

(11) The operator must take appropriate steps to prevent contamination of carcases of animals whose meat is intended for sale for human consumption in consequence of the dressing.

(12) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (11) above, the slaughterhall must be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected after the dressing.