SCHEDULE 7SPECIFIED RISK MATERIAL, MECHANICALLY SEPARATED MEAT AND SLAUGHTERING TECHNIQUES
Authorisation of cutting plants by the Food Standards Agency12
1
The Food Standards Agency may authorise a cutting plant to remove—
a
those parts of the vertebral column of bovine animals that are specified risk material; or
b
spinal cord from sheep and goats aged over 12 months at slaughter or which have a permanent incisor erupted through the gum,
if it is satisfied that the provisions of Annex V of the Community TSE Regulation and this Schedule will be complied with.