SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 7Specified risk material, mechanically separated meat and slaughtering techniques
Authorisation of cutting plants by the Food Standards Agency
13.
(1)
If the Food Standards Agency is satisfied that the provisions of Annex V and this Schedule will be complied with, the Agency may authorise a cutting plant to—
(a)
remove those parts of the vertebral column of bovine animals that are specified risk material; or
(b)
remove the spinal cord from ovine and caprine animals aged over 12 months at slaughter, or that have a permanent incisor erupted through the gum; or
(c)
harvest the head meat from bovine animals in accordance with point 9 of Annex V.
(2)
The procedures in regulations 7, 9, 10 and 11 apply, but all references to the Welsh Ministers must be construed as references to the Food Standards Agency.