Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
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[[ 4. Removal of specified risk material U.K.
4.1. Specified risk material shall be removed at: U.K.
(a)
slaughterhouses, or, as appropriate, other places of slaughter;
(b)
cutting plants, in the case of vertebral column of bovine animals;
(c)
where appropriate, in approved establishments or plants referred to in Article 24(1)(h) of Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009.
4.2. By way of derogation from point 4.1, the use of an alternative test to the removal of specified risk material, referred to in Article 8(2), may be authorised in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 24(3) of this Regulation, provided that that alternative test is listed in Annex X, in accordance with the following conditions: U.K.
(a)
the alternative tests must be carried out in slaughterhouses on all animals eligible for the removal of specified risk material;
(b)
no bovine, ovine or caprine product intended for human consumption or animal feed may leave the slaughterhouse before the competent authority has received and accepted the results of the alternative tests on all slaughtered animals potentially contaminated if BSE has been confirmed in one of them;
(c)
when an alternative test gives a positive result, all bovine, ovine and caprine material which has been potentially contaminated in the slaughterhouse must be destroyed in accordance with point 3, unless all parts of the body including the hide of the affected animal can be identified and kept separate.
4.3. By way of derogation from point 4.1, [the appropriate authority] may decide to allow: U.K.
(a)
the removal of the spinal cord of ovine and caprine animals in cutting plants specifically authorised for that purpose;
(b)
the removal of the vertebral column of bovine animals from carcasses or parts of carcasses in butcher shops specifically authorised, monitored and registered for that purpose;
(c)
the harvesting of head meat from bovine animals in cutting plants specifically authorised for that purpose in accordance with point 9.
4.4. The rules on the removal of specified risk material set out in this Chapter shall not apply to Category 1 material used in accordance with Article 18(2)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 for feeding to zoo animals, as well as to Category 1 material used in accordance with Article 18(2)(b) of that Regulation for feeding to endangered or protected species of necrophagous birds and other species living in their natural habitat, for the promotion of biodiversity.]] U.K.
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