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The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Scotland) Regulations 2006

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Removal of specified risk material at a cutting plant authorised under paragraph 13(1)

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15.—(1) The occupier of a cutting plant authorised under paragraph 13(1) shall ensure that, as soon as is reasonably practicable after a carcase arrives at the plant, and in any event before it leaves the plant–

(a)all specified risk material of a kind to which the authorisation relates; and

(b)where the carcase is derived from a bovine animal aged 30 months or less at slaughter, those parts of the vertebral column that are specified risk material

are removed from the carcase and failure to do so is an offence.

(2) In sub-paragraph (1)(b), “carcase” means–

(a)a carcase;

(b)a half carcase;

(c)a half carcase cut into no more than three wholesale cuts; and

(d)quarters,

containing no specified risk material other than vertebral column.

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