Meat (Post Mortem) Inspection Regulations. Country/Territory Belize Document type Regulation Date 1970 Source FAO, FAOLEX Original source The Subsidiary Laws of Belize Revised Edition 2003, CAP. 291. Subject Food & nutrition Keyword Food quality control/food safety Meat Slaughtering Inspection Geographical area Americas, Central America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Small Island Developing States Abstract Regulations to provide for the inspection of carcasses of goat, swine, cattle or sheep. The occupier of any slaughterhouse shall arrange in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations for the inspection by an inspector of the carcass of every animal slaughtered within the slaughterhouse. No person shall slaughter any animal for sale for human consumption unless the Minister has not less than 24 hours before the time of slaughter been informed of the day and time and of the place at which the slaughter is to take place. No person shall slaughter or cause to be slaughtered in any slaughterhouse any living creature other than an animal tended for sale for human consumption. Every inspection made in pursuance of Regulation 3 of these Regulations shall be made in accordance with the provisions of the First Schedule. After inspection an inspector shall mark a carcass fit for human consumption, in the appropriate manner prescribed in the Third Schedule to these Regulations. Full text English References - Legislation Implements Food and Drugs Act. Legislation | Belize | 1953 (1987) Keyword: Basic legislation, Food quality control/food safety, Fraud, Packaging/labelling, International trade, Hygiene/sanitary procedures, Milk/dairy products, Meat Source: FAO, FAOLEX