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The Imported Food Regulations 1997
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4.Prohibition on importing certain food from third countries
EXEMPT PRODUCTS OF ANIMAL ORIGIN
1.Fishery products and products derived from aquaculture animals.
2.Live filter-feeding lamellibranch molluscs, echinoderms, tunicates and marine gastropods.
4.The meat of domestic animals of the following species: bovine...
6.The meat of non-domesticated animals which are reared and slaughtered...
7.The meat of domestic fowls, turkeys, guinea fowls, ducks and...
8.The meat of birds, including ratites, which are either wild...
9.Meat preparations, meat products, mechanically recovered meat and minced meat....
11.Egg products, other than finished foodstuffs, obtained from eggs laid...
19.Bones, bone products, horns, horn products, hooves and hoof products....
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