2000 No. 3381
FOOD, ENGLAND

The Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2000

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 16(1)(a), (b), (c), (d) and (f), (2)(a) and (3), 17(1), 19(1)(a), 26 and 48(1) of and paragraphs 2(1), 3(1), 5 and 6(1)(a) of Schedule 1 to the Food Safety Act 19901 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf having had regard in accordance with section 48(4A) of that Act to relevant advice given by the Food Standards Agency and after consultation in accordance with section 48(4) and (4B) of that Act makes the following Regulations:

Title, extent and commencement1.

These Regulations may be cited as the Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2000; they extend to England only and come into force on 1st January 2001.

Amendment to the Specified Risk Material Regulations 19972.

(1)

In so far as they extend to England, the Specified Risk Material Regulations 19972 are amended in accordance with paragraph (2) of this regulation.

(2)

The following paragraph is substituted for paragraph (1) of paragraph 4 (specified bovine material)—

“(1)

In these Regulations, “specified bovine material” means—

(a)

the intestines from the duodenum to the rectum of any bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died elsewhere than in Australia or New Zealand;

(b)

the following material derived from a bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died in the United Kingdom or Portugal at an age greater than 6 months—

(i)

the head (excluding the tongue but including the brain, eyes, trigeminal ganglia and tonsils),

(ii)

the thymus,

(iii)

the spleen,

(iv)

the spinal cord, and

(v)

in the case of such an animal which was slaughtered or has died at an age greater than 30 months (other than one which was accompanied at the time of slaughter by a slaughter certificate issued under the Beef Assurance Scheme as described in Schedule 1 to the Fresh Meat (Beef Controls) (No. 2) Regulations 19963), the vertebral column, including dorsal root ganglia; and

(c)

the following material derived from a bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died at an age greater than 12 months elsewhere than in the United Kingdom, Portugal, Australia or New Zealand—

(i)

the skull (including the brains and eyes),

(ii)

the tonsils, and

(iii)

the spinal cord.”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Gisela Stuart
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Health
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
1.

These Regulations make a further amendment to the Specified Risk Material Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/2965), as already amended in so far as they extend to England. The Specified Risk Material Regulations 1997 extend to Great Britain as a whole.

2.

These Regulations give effect to Article 1 of a Commission Decision adopted on 27th December 2000. That Decision amends Commission Decision 2000/418/EC regulating the use of material presenting risks as regards transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (OJ No. L158, 30.6.2000, p. 76) by inserting a revised definition of specified risk material into its Annex I.

3.

These Regulations amend the Specified Risk Material Regulations 1997 to bring the definition of “specified bovine material” in regulation 4(1) of that instrument into line with the revised definition of specified risk material in Annex I to Commission Decision 2000/418/EC.

4.

A regulatory impact assessment has been prepared in respect of these Regulations. A copy of it has been placed in the Library of each House of Parliament. Further copies of the assessment can be obtained from the Meat Hygiene Division of the Food Standards Agency, Ergon House, Horseferry Road, London SW1P 3WG.