The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Control of Vaccination) (Wales) Regulations 2006

Fresh meat etc. derived from vaccinated swine and the unvaccinated seropositive offspring of vaccinated swine slaughtered during phase 3 E+W

11.—(1) This paragraph applies to fresh meat, minced meat and mechanically separated meat derived from the following animals slaughtered during phase 3—

(a) vaccinated swine; and

(b) unvaccinated seropositive offspring of vaccinated swine.

(2) No person is permitted to sell or consign for sale meat to which this paragraph applies unless it complies with sub-paragraph (3) or it was produced in an establishment complying with sub-paragraph (4).

(3) Meat complies with this sub-paragraph if it satisfies the following requirements—

(a) it was health or identification marked and that mark was overstamped;

(b) after marking, it was at all times stored and transported separately from meat which was not so marked;

(c) it was transported in sealed containers for treatment at an establishment designated by the National Assembly;

(d) it was treated at that establishment so that it falls within paragraph 1 of Schedule 5 to the Order.

(4) An establishment complies with this sub-paragraph if it—

(a) is authorised by a licence granted by the National Assembly imposing such conditions as it considers necessary to impose strict veterinary control of the establishment;

(b) processes only meat falling within sub-paragraph (5); and

(c) at all times during the production process stores, identifies and transports animal products intended to be eligible for marketing separately from those which are not, and in accordance with the directions of the National Assembly.

(5) Meat falls within this sub-paragraph if it comes from animals—

(a) originating on premises which have been declared free of disease under regulation 25(1)(b), or

(b) which were reared and slaughtered outside a vaccination zone.