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Poultry Meat, Farmed Game Bird Meat and Rabbit Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2002 (S.I. No. 47 (W.6)).

Country/Territory
United Kingdom
Territorial subdivision
Wales
Document type
Regulation
Date
2002
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Food & nutrition
Keyword
Hygiene/sanitary procedures Meat Poultry products Slaughtering Game Food quality control/food safety
Geographical area
Atlantic Ocean Islands, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Atlantic, North Sea, North-East Atlantic, Northern Europe
Entry into force notes
Coming into force (save for paragraphs (2), (3), (4) and (5) of regulation 2, which shall come into force on 1 December 2002) on 1 February 2002.
Abstract

The amendments to the principal Regulations have effect to: (a) disapply those Regulations insofar as farmers and producers with a limited annual production of birds or rabbits make certain sales, primarily of a retail nature; (b) prohibit a person from operating a low throughput slaughterhouse unless the person has notified the Food Standards Agency of the number and origin of the birds and rabbits to be slaughtered there; (c) revoke regulation 15(3) (exemption from requirement for fresh meat to be accompanied by transport documentation) and make consequential amendments; (d) amend regulation 18(1)(a) (duty of occupier to keep records) to require the occupier of licensed premises to record the origin of meat entering the premises; (e) amend the requirements in paragraph 5 of Part I of Schedule 5 in relation to refrigeration equipment in low throughput slaughterhouses and low throughput cutting premises; (f) amend the requirements in paragraph 1(a) of Schedule 14 to the 1995 Regulations in relation to transport of fresh meat of birds from low throughput slaughterhouses and low throughput cutting premises; and (g) to make some technical corrections.

Full text
English
Website
www.opsi.gov.uk

References - Legislation

Implements

Council Directive 91/494/EEC animal health conditions governing intra-Community trade in and imports from third countries of fresh poultrymeat.

Legislation | European Union | 1991

Keyword: Food quality control/food safety, Hygiene/sanitary procedures, Standards, International trade, Poultry products

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Council Directive 71/118/EEC on health problems affecting trade in fresh poultrymeat.

Legislation | European Union | 1971

Keyword: Food quality control/food safety, Meat, Poultry products, Hygiene/sanitary procedures, Slaughtering, Inspection, Internal trade

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Amends

Poultry Meat, Farmed Game Bird Meat and Rabbit Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations (S.I. No. 540 of 1995).

Legislation | United Kingdom | 1995

Keyword: Hygiene/sanitary procedures, Poultry products, Slaughtering, Game, Inspection, Authorization/permit, Food quality control/food safety

Source: FAO, FAOLEX