The principal amendments made by these Regulations to the 1995 Regulations are as follows: (a) the definitions of "animal by-products premises", "game processing facility"; the definition of "occupier" "stained" are extended or amended, and definitions inserted of "cold store", "cutting premises" and "slaughterhouse" (reg. 2); (b) regulation 4 is replaced with a provision which provides that the only whole carcases which have to be sterilised or stained are whole poultry carcases which are dead on arrival at a slaughterhouse or which are rejected following pre-slaughter or post-mortem health inspections carried out at such premises; (c) the exemption from the application of the Regulations in favour of poultry by-products is removed; (d) the exemption from the Regulations in favour of the removal of green offal from animal by-products premises, game processing facilities and slaughterhouses is extended to apply in favour of cold stores and cutting premises also; (e) regulation 6 is replaced with a provision which applies in relation to cutting premises also; (e) regulation 8 is replaced with a provision which applies in relation to cold stores and cutting premises also; (f) regulation 9 is replaced with a provision which imposes requirements with respect to the storage of unsterilised animal by-products in the same room as products intended for human consumption and in cold stores, cutting premises, game processing facilities and slaughterhouses; and (g) regulation 10 is replaced with a provision which applies in relation to cold stores and cutting premises also.
Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte · 2002-05-30