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Editorial Information
When required in accordance with Article 5 or 6, and subject to the provisions of Annex III, food business operators must ensure that products of animal origin have an identification mark applied in compliance with the following provisions.
Textual Amendments
F1Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1020/2008 of 17 October 2008 amending Annexes II and III to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin and Regulation (EC) No 2076/2005 as regards identification marking, raw milk and dairy products, eggs and egg products and certain fishery products (Text with EEA relevance).
Textual Amendments
Textual Amendments
F3Annex 2 Section 1 Pt. B substituted (31.12.2020) by S.I. 2019/640, reg. 18(1)(a) (as substituted by The Food and Feed Hygiene and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1504), regs. 1(2), 9(10))
Textual Amendments
F4Words in Annex 2 Section 1 Pt. C para. 14 substituted (31.12.2020) by S.I. 2019/640, reg. 18(1)(b) (as substituted by The Food and Feed Hygiene and Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1504), regs. 1(2), 9(10))
is properly identified;
is accompanied by the relevant information from the holding of provenance referred to in Section III;
does not come from a holding or an area subject to a movement prohibition or other restriction for reasons of animal or public health, except when the competent authority so permits;
is clean;
is healthy, as far as the food business operator can judge;
and
is in a satisfactory state as regards welfare on arrival at the slaughterhouse.
Food business operators operating slaughterhouses must, as appropriate, request, receive, check and act upon food chain information as set out in this Section in respect of all animals, other than wild game, sent or intended to be sent to the slaughterhouse.
[F5the status of the holding of provenance or the regional animal health status, and whether the holding is officially recognised to apply controlled housing conditions in relation to Trichinella in accordance with Point A of Chapter I of Annex IV to [F6Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2015/1375];]
the animals' health status;
veterinary medicinal products or other treatments administered to the animals within a relevant period and with a withdrawal period greater than zero, together with their dates of administration and withdrawal periods;
the occurrence of diseases that may affect the safety of meat;
the results, if they are relevant to the protection of public health, of any analysis carried out on samples taken from the animals or other samples taken to diagnose diseases that may affect the safety of meat, including samples taken in the framework of the monitoring and control of zoonoses and residues;
relevant reports about previous ante- and post-mortem inspections of animals from the same holding of provenance including, in particular, reports from the official veterinarian;
production data, when this might indicate the presence of disease;
and
the name and address of the private veterinarian normally attending the holding of provenance.
Textual Amendments
F5Substituted by Commission Regulation (EU) No 218/2014 of 7 March 2014 amending Annexes to Regulations (EC) No 853/2004 and (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Regulation (EC) No 2074/2005 (Text with EEA relevance).
F6Words in Annex 2 Section 3 para. 3(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Specific Food Hygiene (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/640), regs. 1, 18(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
However, it is not necessary for the slaughterhouse operator to be provided with:
the information referred to in point 3(a), (b), (f) and (h), if the operator is already aware of this information (for example, through a standing arrangement or a quality assurance scheme);
or
the information referred to in point 3(a), (b), (f) and (g), if the producer declares that there is no relevant information to report.
The information need not be provided as a verbatim extract from the records of the holding of provenance. It may be provided through electronic data exchange or in the form of a standardised declaration signed by the producer.
However, any item of food chain information, knowledge of which may result in serious disruption of the slaughterhouse activity, is to be made available to the food business operator operating the slaughterhouse in sufficient time before the animals arrive at the slaughterhouse, in order for that food business operator to plan the slaughterhouse activity accordingly.
The food business operator operating the slaughterhouse must evaluate the relevant information and must submit the food chain information received to the official veterinarian. The slaughter or dressing of the animals may not take place until the official veterinarian so permits.]
Textual Amendments
F7Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1161/2009 of 30 November 2009 amending Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards food chain information to be provided to food business operators operating slaughterhouses (Text with EEA relevance).
the date of slaughter in the case of carcasses, half carcasses or quarter carcases;
the date of killing in the case of bodies of wild game;
the date of harvesting or catching, in the case of fishery products;
the date of processing, cutting, mincing or preparation, as appropriate, for any other food of animal origin.
the date of production; and
the date of freezing, if different from the date of production.
Where a food is made from a batch of raw materials with different dates of production and of freezing, the oldest dates of production and/or of freezing, as appropriate, must be made available.
Textual Amendments
F9Words in Annex 2 Section 4 para. 2 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Specific Food Hygiene (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/640), regs. 1, 18(3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Textual Amendments
[X1 [F1 OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1 .] ]
Editorial Information
X1Substituted by Corrigendum to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin (Official Journal of the European Union L 139 of 30 April 2004).
Textual Amendments
F1Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1020/2008 of 17 October 2008 amending Annexes II and III to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin and Regulation (EC) No 2076/2005 as regards identification marking, raw milk and dairy products, eggs and egg products and certain fishery products (Text with EEA relevance).