Statutory Rule 1997 No. 552

      The Specified Risk Material Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997


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STATUTORY RULES OF NORTHERN IRELAND

1997 No. 552

FOOD SAFETY

The Specified Risk Material Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Made 29th December 1997
Coming into operation 1st January 1998


ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS

Part I
Preliminary
1.  Citation and commencement
2.  Interpretation
3.  Specified sheep and Goat material
4.  Specified bovine material
5.  Approvals
Part II
Restrictions of the use of specified risk material and vertebral columns of ruminant animals
6.  Specified risk material for human consumption
7.  Prohibitions applying to the vertebral column
8.  Registration of premises on which meat is recovered by mechanical means from ruminant animals
Part III
Requirements in relation to the removal and initial treatment of specified risk material
9.  Initial treatment of bovine, sheep and goat carcases in a slaughterhouse
10.  Initial treatment of bovine, sheep and goat carcases elsewhere than in a slaughterhouse
11.  Rendering whole carcases
12.  Exceptions from the requirement to stain specified risk material
13.  Measures in relation to stained specified risk material
Part IV
Prohibitions on the removal of certain specified risk materials from ruminant animals
14.  Prohibition on the removal of brain and eyes
15.  Prohibition on the removal of the spinal cord of a ruminant animal
Part V
Particular requirements in relation to sheep and goats
16.  The young lamb stamp
17.  Transportation of unmarked carcases of sheep and goats
18.  Presence of an official veterinary surgeon
19.  Possession of unmarked carcases of sheep and goats
Part VI
Transport and disposal of specified risk material
20.  Procedure for bringing in specified risk material from Great Britain, the Isle of Man or any of the Channel Islands
21.  Consignment of specified risk material
22.  Approved collection centres
23.  Approved incinerators
24.  Approved rendering plants
25.  Veterinary or laboratory premises, etc.
26.  Power to give directions
27.  Transport
28.  Storage
Part VII
Enforcement
29.  Offences and penalties
30.  Application of provisions of the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991
31.  Enforcement
32.  Revocations


SCHEDULES

  Schedule 1.  Rendering Requirements
  Part I— Requirements to be met where specified risk material is rendered
  Part II— Methods of rendering
Method 1
Natural fat batch atmospheric (150 mm particle size)
Method 2
Natural fat batch atmospheric (30 mm particle size)
Method 3
Added fat batch atmospheric (30 mm particle size)
Method 4
Natural fat batch (batch pressure)
Method 5
Natural fat continuous atmospheric
Method 6
Added fat continuous atmospheric
Method 7
Defatted continuous atmospheric

  Schedule 2.  Application of the Order to Scheme animals

 

Explanatory Note


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