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Specified Risk Material Order (Northern Ireland) 1997 (S.R. No. 551 of 2001).

Country/Territory
United Kingdom
Territorial subdivision
Northern Ireland
Document type
Regulation
Date
1997
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Food & nutrition, Livestock
Keyword
Food quality control/food safety Hygiene/sanitary procedures Animal health Pests/diseases Animal by-products
Geographical area
Atlantic Ocean Islands, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Atlantic, North Sea, North-East Atlantic, Northern Europe
Abstract

The Order imposes controls on the import of class I specified risk material (defined in article 2) and requires imported food and feedingstuffs of the types set out in Schedule 1 to be certified by the veterinary authorities in the place from which they were despatched to Northern Ireland as not containing class 1 specified risk material (art. 6). The Order prohibits the use of specified risk material derived from animals slaughtered in the United Kingdom in ingredients for cosmetic, pharmaceutical and medical products (art. 7) and prohibits the use of all specified risk material in feedingstuffs for any creature, subject to an exemption for research purposes (art. 8). Article 10 of the Order provides for the licensing of premises as suitable to process specified risk material in a manufacturing process not producing any food, feedingstuff, cosmetic, pharmaceutical or medical product. The Order contains provisions on transport, storage and sampling (arts. 11 to 13), and makes provision for the recall and disposal of imported specified risk material and feedingstuffs containing specified risk material imported, produced or sold in contravention of the Order (art. 14). Article 15 prohibits the export of specified risk material to other member States, except in accordance with a licence granted by the Department.

Full text
English
Website
www.opsi.gov.uk

References - Legislation

Amended by

Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001 (S.R. No. 377 of 2001).

Legislation | United Kingdom | 2001

Keyword: Hygiene/sanitary procedures, Animal health, Pests/diseases

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Specified Risk Material (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001 (S.R. No. 1 of 2001).

Legislation | United Kingdom | 2001

Keyword: Hygiene/sanitary procedures, Animal health, Pests/diseases

Source: FAO, FAOLEX