Beef Bones Regulations 1997
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1997 No. 2959
FOOD
The Beef Bones Regulations 1997
Made 15th December 1997
Laid before Parliament 15th December 1997
Coming into force 16th December 1997
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Health and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in relation to England and Wales, and the Secretary of State for Scotland in relation to Scotland, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 6(4), 16(1)(a), (b), (c), (d) and (f) and (3), 26 and 48(1) of, and paragraphs 2(1), 3(1), 5(1) and 6(1)(a) of Schedule 1 to, the Food Safety Act 19901, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consultation in accordance with section 48(4) of that Act with such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by the Regulations, hereby make the following Regulations:—
Title and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Beef Bones Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 16th December 1997.
Interpretation
2.—(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
“the Act” means the Food Safety Act 1990;
“additive” means any substance not normally consumed as a food in itself and not normally used as a characteristic ingredient of food, whether or not it has nutritional value, used in the preparation, packaging, transport or storage of a food which results, or may reasonably be expected to result, in it or its by-products becoming directly a component of the food;
“bone-in beef” means a carcase or any fresh meat which contains or to which there is attached any bone;
“bone” means any bone (including bone marrow and any part of a bone) of a bovine animal, including the bones of the tail and feet, but excluding cartilage;
“bovine animal” means any bovine animal aged over six months at slaughter which is a food source, including buffalo of the species Bubalis bubalis and Bison bison;
“carcase” means the whole body of a slaughtered bovine animal;
“deboning” means removing any bone from any bone-in beef;
“fresh meat” means any part of a bovine animal suitable for human consumption, including chilled or frozen meat, which has not undergone any preserving process and includes any meat vacuum wrapped or wrapped in a controlled atmosphere;
“ingredient” means any substance, including any additive, which is used in the preparation of a food and which is still present in the finished product, even if in altered form;
“occupier” means the person carrying on a food business; and
“ultimate consumer” means any person who buys otherwise than for the purposes of a food business.
(2) For the purposes of these Regulations, the age at slaughter of a bovine animal shall be presumed to be over six months unless it can be shown, by reference to such records as are available in relation to the age at slaughter of the animal, that it was aged six months or less at slaughter.
(3) For the purposes of these Regulations, the delivery in the course of a business of bone-in beef to or to the order of its owner for human consumption shall be deemed to be a sale.
Bone-in beef
3.—(1) No person shall sell any bone-in beef to the ultimate consumer.
(2) No person shall use any bone-in beef in the preparation of any food or ingredient for sale direct to the ultimate consumer.
Bones
4.—(1) No person shall sell any bone to the ultimate consumer for human consumption.
(2) No person shall sell any bone removed from bone-in beef deboned in Great Britain for use in the preparation of any food or ingredient for human consumption.
(3) No person shall use any bone removed from bone-in beef deboned in Great Britain in the preparation of any food or ingredient for sale for human consumption.
(4) No person shall sell any bone removed from bone-in beef deboned outside Great Britain for use in the preparation of any food or ingredient for sale direct to the ultimate consumer for human consumption.
(5) No person shall use any bone removed from bone-in beef deboned outside Great Britain in the preparation of any food or ingredient for sale direct to the ultimate consumer for human consumption.
Food and food ingredients
5.—(1) No person shall sell to the ultimate consumer for human consumption any food an ingredient of which consists of or is derived from bones removed from bone-in beef deboned in Great Britain.
(2) No person shall sell for use in the preparation of any food or ingredient for human consumption any substance derived from bones removed from bone-in beef deboned in Great Britain.
(3) No person shall use on food premises in the preparation of any food or ingredient for human consumption any substance derived from bones removed from bone-in beef deboned in Great Britain.
(4) Until 15th March 1998 this regulation shall not apply to anything, other than bone-in beef or bones, prepared for sale before the coming into force of these Regulations.
Deboning
6.—(1) No person in the course of a business shall debone any bone-in beef for preparation, preparation for sale or sale for human consumption except at food premises.
(2) The occupier of food premises shall ensure that any deboning of bone-in beef at the premises is carried out in a hygienic manner, in particular so as to avoid the risk of contamination of any food or ingredient.
Storage of bones
7.—(1) Bones removed from bone-in beef deboned in Great Britain shall be stored at food premises...
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