Animals and Animal Products (Examination for Residues and Maximum Residue Limits) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 (S.R. No. 237 of 1998).

Subject

Livestock, Food & nutrition

Keyword

Food quality control/food safety MRL-maximum residue limit Meat Hormones/steroids Drugs Animal feed/feedstuffs Animal health

Geographical area

Atlantic Ocean Islands, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Atlantic, North Sea, North-East Atlantic, Northern Europe

Abstract

The Regulations implement for Northern Ireland Community legislation on the use in stockfarming of certain substances having a hormonal or thyrostatic action and the effects on animal products. The Regulations, among other things: (a) prohibit the sale, possession or administration to animals of specified unauthorized substances; (b) prohibit the possession, slaughter or processing the meat of, animals intended for human consumption which contain, or which have been administered with, specified unauthorized substances; (c) prohibit the sale or supply for slaughter of animals if the appropriate withdrawal period has not expired and prohibit supply for slaughter or, subject to exceptions, the sale, of animals or the sale of animal products which contain unauthorized substances or an excess of authorized substances; and (d) prohibit, subject to an exception, the disposal for human or animal consumption of slaughtered animals containing specified unauthorized substances.

Full text

English

Website

www.opsi.gov.uk

References - Legislation

Implements

Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991 No. 762 (N.I. 7)).

Legislation | United Kingdom | 1991 (2013)

Keyword: Basic legislation, Food quality control/food safety, Fraud, Inspection, Institution, Residues, Drugs, Animal health

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Council Directive 96/23/EC on measures to monitor certain substances and residues thereof in live animals and animal products and repealing Directives 85/358/EEC and 86/469/EEC and Decisions 89/187/EEC and 91/664/EEC.

Legislation | European Union | 1996

Keyword: Hormones/steroids, Animal production, Residues, Monitoring, Inspection, Animal feed/feedstuffs, Drugs, Animal health

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Council Directive 96/22/EC concerning the prohibition on the use in stockfarming of certain substances having a hormonal or thyrostatic action and of ß-agonists.

Legislation | European Union | 1996

Keyword: Aquaculture, Drugs, Fish disease, Animal health, Food quality control/food safety, Meat, Hormones/steroids

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2377/90 laying down a Community procedure for the establishment of maximum residue limits of veterinary medicinal products in foodstuffs of animal origin.

Legislation | European Union | 1990

Keyword: Food quality control/food safety, MRL-maximum residue limit, Drugs

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Implemented by

Animals and Animal Products (Examination for Residues and Maximum Residue Limits) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. No. 263 of 2006).

Legislation | United Kingdom | 2006

Keyword: Food quality control/food safety, MRL-maximum residue limit, Meat, Hormones/steroids

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Amended by

Animals and Animal Products (Examination for Residues and Maximum Residue Limits) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (S.R. No. 298 of 2009).

Legislation | United Kingdom | 2009

Keyword: Food quality control/food safety, MRL-maximum residue limit, Meat, Hormones/steroids, Drugs, Animal feed/feedstuffs, Animal health

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Animals and Animal Products (Examination for Residues and Maximum Residue Limits) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. No. 451 of 2005).

Legislation | United Kingdom | 2005

Keyword: Food quality control/food safety, MRL-maximum residue limit, Meat, Hormones/steroids, Drugs, Animal feed/feedstuffs, Equine-animals, Animal health

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Animals and Animal Products (Examination for Residues and Maximum Residue Limits) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 (S.R. No. 122 of 2013).

Legislation | United Kingdom | 2013

Keyword: Food quality control/food safety, MRL-maximum residue limit, Meat, Hormones/steroids, Drugs, Animal feed/feedstuffs, Animal health

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Repealed by

Animals and Animal Products (Examination for Residues and Maximum Residue Limits) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. No. 54 of 2016).

Legislation | United Kingdom | 2016

Keyword: Food quality control/food safety, MRL-maximum residue limit, Meat, Hormones/steroids, Drugs, Monitoring, Animal feed/feedstuffs, Animal health, Inspection, Slaughtering

Source: FAO, FAOLEX