The Fresh Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations 1992

4.—(1) Where an inspector or official veterinary surgeon is satisfied that a carcase or offal is affected with tuberculosis other than generalised tuberculosis or tuberculosis with emaciation, he shall condemn the following parts of the carcase and offal as unfit for human consumption—

(a) any part of the carcase infected with localised tuberculosis and any other part contiguous thereto;

(b) the head including the tongue, when tuberculosis exists in any lymph node associated with the head or tongue, save that where in a particular lymph node or nodes the lesion is small and inactive and the lymph node is not enlarged, he may regard the head or tongue, or both, as fit for human consumption after the removal of the affected lymph node or nodes and the surrounding tissue; and

(c) any organ or viscera when tuberculosis exists in the substance, or on the surface thereof, or in any lymph node associated therewith.

(2) An inspector or official veterinary surgeon shall condemn any part of a carcase and any offal or blood contaminated with tuberculous material as unfit for human consumption.