The Animal By-Products (Identification) Regulations 1995

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

“the 1992 Order” means the Animal By-Products Order 1992(1);

“the Act” means the Food Safety Act 1990;

“animal” means any of the following food sources, namely—

(a)

domestic animals of the following species: bovine animals (including buffalo of the species Bubalus bubalis and Bison bison), solipeds, swine, sheep and goats; and

(b)

poultry, rabbits, farmed game and wild game;

“animal by-product” has the meaning given by regulation 3;

“animal by-products premises” means premises, other than a slaughterhouse or game processing facility, from which animal by-products are despatched to other premises;

“carcase” means the body of a dead animal;

“enforcement authority”, in relation to any premises, means the authority charged with enforcing and executing these regulations by regulation 12;

“farmed game” means wild land mammals which are reared and slaughtered in captivity, excluding—

(a)

mammals of the family Leporidae; and

(b)

wild land mammals living within an enclosed area under conditions of freedom similar to those enjoyed by wild game;

“game processing facility” means premises, other than a slaughterhouse, used for the purpose of processing farmed or wild game the flesh of which is intended for sale for human consumption;

“green offal” means the stomachs, gizzards and intestines of animals;

“the Hygiene Regulations” means—

(a)

the Fresh Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations 1995(2); and

(b)

the Poultry Meat, Farmed Game Bird Meat and Rabbit Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations 1995(3);

“meat” means the flesh or other edible parts of an animal;

“occupier” means a person carrying on the business of any slaughterhouse, game processing facility or animal by-products premises, or the duly authorised representative of such a person;

“poultry” means domestic fowls, turkeys, guinea fowls, ducks, geese and quails;

“poultry by-product” means any animal by-product derived exclusively or mainly from poultry;

“scientific purposes” means diagnostic, educational or research purposes;

“stained” means treated with a solution of the colouring agent Black PN or Brilliant Black BN (E151, Colour Index 197 No 28440), which solution is of such a strength that the colouring on the animal by-product is clearly visible; and, for the purposes of this definition, “treated” means that the whole surface of the animal by-product has been covered with the said solution either by immersing the animal by-product in, or spraying or otherwise applying, the solution and, in the case of an animal by-product weighing not less than 25kg, that the solution has been so applied after the surface of the animal by-product has been opened by multiple and deep incisions;

“sterilised” means—

(a)

treated by boiling or by steaming under pressure until every piece of animal by-product is cooked throughout;

(b)

rendered into tallow, greases, glues, feeding meals or fertilisers; or

(c)

subjected to a process, including digestion, other than those described above which inactivates all vegetative forms of human pathogenic organisms in the animal by-product and results in all parts of that animal by-product no longer having the appearance of raw meat;

“wild game” means wild land mammals which are hunted (including wild land mammals living within an enclosed area under conditions of freedom similar to those enjoyed by wild game) and wild birds.

(2) In these Regulations any reference to a numbered regulation shall be construed as a reference to the regulation so numbered in these Regulations.

(1)

S.I. 1992/3303.

(2)

S.I. 1995/539.

(3)

S.I. 1995/540.