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