The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Wales) Regulations 2018

Bovine animals in a slaughterhouse

8.—(1) When a bovine animal is slaughtered in a slaughterhouse or the carcase of a bovine animal is transported to a slaughterhouse following emergency slaughter elsewhere, the occupier of the slaughterhouse must remove all specified risk material from the carcase (other than those parts of the vertebral column that are specified risk material) as soon as is reasonably practicable after slaughter and in any event before post-mortem inspection.

(2) The occupier must—

(a) as soon as reasonably practicable after post-mortem inspection, consign any offal that has been removed from the carcase and that contains or is attached to specified risk material to an appropriate area of the slaughterhouse; and

(b) as soon as reasonably practicable after the offal is consigned there and in any event before the offal is removed from the slaughterhouse, remove the specified risk material.

(3) The occupier must as soon as is reasonably practicable after slaughter, consign any meat containing those parts of the vertebral column that are specified risk material to—

(a) a cutting plant authorised under paragraph 13(1)(a);

(b) a cutting plant located in another part of the United Kingdom and authorised under the corresponding provision applicable in that part; or

(c) another Member State in accordance with point 10.2 of Annex V.

(4) The occupier must identify meat containing vertebral column that is not specified risk material in accordance with point 11.3(a) of Annex V and provide information in accordance with point 11.3(b) of that Annex.

(5) The occupier must label carcasses or wholesale cuts containing vertebral column in accordance with point 11.3(a) of Annex V.

(6) Failure to comply with this paragraph is an offence.