The Minced Meat and Meat Preparations (Hygiene) Regulations 1995

2.  The following may not be used for the production of minced meat—

(a) scrap cuttings, scrap trimmings or mechanically recovered meat;

(b) meat referred to in Part IX of Schedule 10 to the Fresh Meat Regulations, Part II of Schedule 9 to the Poultry Meat Regulations or Part II of Schedule 5 to the Wild Game Meat Regulations;

(c) meat containing bone fragments;

(d) in the case of meat derived from bovine animals, sheep, goats or pigs, bone scrapings, the non-muscular part of the linear alba, the carpus and tarsus region or meat from the muscles of the head, with the exception of the masseters which may be used provided that, where they are derived from bovine animals, an examination for cysticercosis has been conducted; and

(e) in the case of meat derived from bovine animals, meat from the muscles of the diaphragm except where, after the removal of serosa, an examination for cysticercosis has been conducted.