The Food Hygiene (Wales) Regulations 2006

Regulation 17(6)

[F1 SCHEDULE 3B E+W REQUIREMENTS REFERRED TO IN REGULATION 17(6)

Textual Amendments

F1 Schs. 3A-3D inserted (13.4.2010) by The Food Hygiene (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/893), reg. 1, Sch. 2

The requirements are that—

(a) on 31 December 2005 the slaughterhouse was licensed as a low throughput slaughterhouse under the Poultry Meat, Farmed Game Bird Meat and Rabbit Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations 1995;

(b) the condition of meat derived from poultry or lagomorphs slaughtered at the slaughterhouse is only rarely such that it is necessary to detain such meat after post-mortem inspection for further inspection by the official veterinarian;

(c) where such further inspection is considered necessary by the official veterinarian, the meat concerned is destroyed or is detained at an alternative detention facility in the locality of the slaughterhouse; and

(d) when meat is transported from the slaughterhouse to the alternative detention facility referred to in paragraph (c), it must be marked 'detained meat' and accompanied by a document that has been signed by the official veterinarian, declares that the meat is detained meat and contains the following information–

(i) name and address of slaughterhouse of origin;

(ii) name and address of alternative detention facility;

(iii) number of carcases or cuts; and

(iv) species of animal.]