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4. In the case of birds subjected to delayed evisceration:
(a)the post-mortem health inspection in accordance with paragraph 1 above shall take place at the latest 15 days after slaughter, during which period they must be kept at a temperature not exceeding +4°C;
(b)at the end of that period at the latest, they shall be eviscerated in the slaughterhouse where the slaughtering was performed or in an approved cutting plant fulfilling the additional requirements in paragraph 1(b) of Schedule 3 and in the latter case, be accompanied by the health certificate shown in Schedule 20;
(c)the poultry meat or farmed game meat shall not not bear the health mark referred to in Schedule 11 before the evisceration referred to in sub-paragraph (b) of this paragraph has been performed.
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