SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 7Specified risk material, mechanically separated meat and slaughtering techniques

Authorisation of cutting plants by the Food Standards Agency13

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.