Offals in Meat Products Order, 1953
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1953/246 |
| Year | 1953 |
1953 No. 246
The Offals in Meat Products Order, 195318thFebruary 1953
18thFebruary 1953
1stMarch 1953
The Minister of Food, in pursuance of the powers conferred upon him by Regulation 2 of the Defence (Sale of Food) Regulations, 1943(b), as continued in force by the Emergency Laws (Continuance) Order, 1952(c), and of all other powers him enabling in that behalf, hereby orders as follows:—
1. This Order shall come into operation on the 1st day of March, 1953, and may be cited as the Offals in Meat Products Order, 1953.
2. In this Order—
"The Minister" means the Minister of Food.
(a) S.I. 1953/1282; 1953 II, p. 2094.
(b) S.R. & O. 1943/1553; 1945/1454: 1943 II, p. 70; 1945 II, p. 95.
(c) S.I. 1952/2095; 1952 I, p. 945.
"Meat" means bacon, ham, beef, mutton, lamb, veal, pork, edible offals, poultry, game, rabbit, hare and venison.
"Open meat product" means any food used, manufactured or prepared for human consumption which is manufactured or prepared from meat and another ingredient or other ingredients and which is not and has not been canned.
"Prohibited offals" means brains, feet, fries, gut (including chitterlings), manifolds, paunches, udders, sweetbreads, tripe, melts or lites, spinal cord, uteri, pigs' maws and calves' vells.
"Uncooked" means not subjected to a process of cooking throughout the whole substance so as to render unnecessary any further cooking before being used for human consumption.
3. No person shall use or cause or permit to be used any prohibited offal in the composition or preparation of any uncooked open meat product intended for sale or sold for human consumption.
4. For the purposes of this Order any uncooked open meat product which is found on premises used for the preparation, storage or sale of any article of food commonly used for human consumption shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, to be intended for sale for human consumption.
5.—(1) In any proceedings in respect of an infringement of this Order the production by one of the parties of (i) a document purporting to be a certificate of a public analyst or the Government Chemist or (ii) a document supplied to him by the other party as being a copy of such a certificate shall be sufficient evidence of the facts stated therein, unless in the case mentioned under head (i) above the other party requires that the person making the analysis shall be called as a witness.
(2) In any such proceedings—
(a) if the prosecution intends to produce a...
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