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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