Bovines and Bovine Products (Trade) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

Regulation 10(3)(d)

SCHEDULE 1 REQUIRED METHODS OF OPERATION FOR DBES SLAUGHTERHOUSES

Requirement	Description of facility or control procedure by which the requirement will be met*	Staff member(s) responsible for supervision*
1.  Slaughterhouse management must agree with the supervising Official Veterinary Surgeon dedicated time periods (“DBES periods”) when only DBES eligible animals will be slaughtered. No bovine animals, which are not DBES eligible, may be slaughtered during DBES periods.
2.  All bovine animals slaughtered during DBES periods must have been confirmed by official checks before slaughter as being DBES eligible animals.
3.  Before a DBES period can start after non-DBES production, the slaughter hall must first be cleaned.
4.  There must be a system at the establishment to ensure that after slaughter DBES meat is traceable back to the DBES eligible animal from which it is derived or, in the case of offal which is intended for export, is traceable back to the batch of DBES eligible animals from which it is derived.
5.  There must be a system for recording all DBES eligible animals slaughtered and outgoing DBES fresh meat which ensures that it is possible to cross check consignments entering and leaving the establishment.
6.  All carcasses of DBES animals must have individual numbers correlated with the eartag number and must be marked with an additional distinct mark in the form prescribed in Schedule 5 to The Bovines and Bovine Products (Trade) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 after the meat has been passed fit for human consumption following post mortem inspection.
7.  The additional mark may only be applied to carcasses during DBES periods.
8.  Instruments intended for application of the additional mark, labels or packaging bearing an additional mark and official seals, may be ordered only with the authorisation of a veterinary inspector.
9.  All new supplies of instruments intended for application of the additional mark, labels or packaging bearing the additional mark and official seals must be delivered into the control of an inspector in accordance with Regulation 11(7) of The Bovines and Bovine Products (Trade) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 and maintained and applied under the control of an inspector.
10.  Carcases of DBES eligible animals bearing the additional mark must be despatched to export approved establishments except for carcases of such animals aged under 9 months which may also be despatched abroad. All carcases must be despatched from the premises in means of transport, or in a lockable chamber or lockable container carried on a means of transport, which is not used at the same time for the carriage of any other meat derived from a bovine animal and sealed with an official seal. Where carcases of DBES eligible animals are destined for placing on the market in the UK they should not bear the additional mark. Where such a mark is present it shall be cancelled or removed from the goods at the time that the goods leave the establishment.
11.  Outside of DBES periods, carcases of DBES animals must be stored separately from carcases of non-DBES eligible animals in cold store chambers which are locked under seal so that goods cannot be added or removed without breaking the seal. During DBES periods, carcases of non-DBES eligible animals must be stored separately from carcases of DBES eligible animals in cold store chambers, which are locked under seal so that goods cannot be added or removed without breaking the seal. (Lockable rails in chillers are not sufficient to comply with this requirement.)
* To be completed in respect of each approval