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The Wild Game Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations 1995

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Inspection and health marking

10.—(1) The Minister shall arrange for post-mortem health inspections to be carried out at all licensed premises in accordance with Schedule 4.

(2) Where wild game meat has been passed as fit for human consumption in accordance with Part I of Schedule 5 following post-mortem health inspection and complies with the requirements of these Regulations, the health mark shall be applied to it in accordance with the requirements of Schedule 7, and no other meat shall be so marked.

(3) Meat derived from unskinned large wild game shall not bear the health mark.

(4) No person shall remove, or cause or permit to be removed, from any licensed premises any carcase, part of a carcase or offal intended for consignment or sale for consignment to a relevant EEA State for human consumption unless it has been inspected in accordance with these Regulations.

(5) The health mark shall be applied by persons acting under the responsibility of an OVS, and no other person shall apply the health mark or possess or use the equipment for applying the health mark.

(6) The equipment for applying the health mark and any labels, wrapping or seals on which the health mark is printed shall be kept under the responsibility of the OVS.

(7) No person shall use any mark so resembling a health mark, or in such a way, as to be likely to suggest that the product has been produced in accordance with these Regulations.

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