Animals and Animal Products (Examination for Residues and Maximum Residue Limits) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. No. 54 of 2016). Country/Territory United Kingdom Territorial subdivision Northern Ireland Document type Regulation Date 2016 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Livestock, Food & nutrition Keyword Food quality control/food safety MRL-maximum residue limit Meat Hormones/steroids Drugs Monitoring Animal feed/feedstuffs Animal health Inspection Slaughtering 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 hormonal or thyrostatic action and of beta-agonist on animal products and on measures to monitor certain substances and residues thereof in live animals and 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 Repeals 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 Animals and Animal Products (Examination for Residues and Maximum Residue Limits) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 (S.R. No. 237 of 1998). Legislation | United Kingdom | 1998 Keyword: Food quality control/food safety, MRL-maximum residue limit, Meat, Hormones/steroids, Drugs, Animal feed/feedstuffs, Animal health Source: FAO, FAOLEX Amended by Residues (Charges and Examination)(Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. No. 16 of 2019). Legislation | United Kingdom | 2019 Keyword: Food quality control/food safety, MRL-maximum residue limit, Meat, Hormones/steroids, Drugs, Animal feed/feedstuffs, Animal health Source: FAO, FAOLEX