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Animals and Animal Products (Examination for Residues and Maximum Residue Limits) (Wales) Regulations 2019 (S.R. No. 569 (W. 125) of 2019).

Country/Territory
United Kingdom
Territorial subdivision
Wales
Document type
Regulation
Date
2019
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Livestock, Food & nutrition
Keyword
Food quality control/food safety Meat Residues Internal trade Inspection Enforcement/compliance Offences/penalties Animal feed/feedstuffs Animal health Animal production Drugs Slaughtering
Geographical area
Atlantic Ocean Islands, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Atlantic, North Sea, North-East Atlantic, Northern Europe
Abstract

These Regulations implement EU legislation on the control of use of animal drugs and residue limits of pharmacologically active substances in foodstuffs of animal origin. They, among other things- (a) prohibit the sale, possession or administration to animals of specified unauthorised substances; (b) prohibit the possession or slaughter of, or the processing of the meat of, animals intended for human consumption to which there has been administered, which contains, or in which the presence has been established of, specified unauthorised substances; (c) prohibit the sale or supply, for slaughter for human consumption, of animals to which substances have been administered in certain circumstances including, subject to an exception, where the withdrawal period for the product administered has not expired; (d) prohibit the sale for human consumption of any animal product derived from an animal the sale or supply for slaughter of which is prohibited under regulation 9 or any animal product which contains an unauthorised substance or an excess of an authorised substance; provide for monitoring, control and enforcement.

Full text
English
Website
www.opsi.gov.uk

References - Legislation

Implements

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

Amends

Plant Health (Wales) Order 2018 (S.R. No. 1064 (W. 223) of 2018).

Legislation | United Kingdom | 2018

Keyword: Plant protection, Plant production, Pests/diseases, Inspection, Transport/storage, Internal trade, Authorization/permit

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Repeals

Animals and Animal Products (Examination for Residues and Maximum Residue Limits) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1729 of 1997).

Legislation | United Kingdom | 1997

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

Source: FAO, FAOLEX