The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Wales) Order 2006 No. 179 (W. 30)

SCHEDULE 5 E+W Treatments to ensure the destruction of disease virus

PART 3 E+W Fresh meat

De-boning E+W

11.  Meat (together with diaphragms but excluding offal) is deboned so that it falls within this paragraph if the bone and main accessible lymphatic glands have been removed.

Maturation E+W

12.  Carcases are matured so that they fall within this paragraph if they—

(a) have been matured at a temperature of more than 2°C for at least 24 hours, and

(b) have a pH value in the middle of the Longissimus dorsi recorded at less than 6.0.