Meat Products (Hygiene) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Part VIIStorage and Transport

1.  Meat products must be stored—

(a)in the rooms provided for in Schedule 2 Part I paragraph 1(a); or

(b)in any other place in accordance with the following conditions—

(i)meat products which cannot be kept at ambient temperatures may be stored in an approved cold store;

(ii)meat products which can be kept at ambient temperatures may be stored in stores of solid construction, provided that these are easy to clean and disinfect and are acceptable to the enforcement authority.

2.  Meat products shall be despatched in such a way that they are protected during transportation from anything which might contaminate or adversely affect them. For this purpose account shall be taken of the length of the journey, the means of transport employed and the weather conditions.

3.  Meat products shall, if the product so requires, be transported in vehicles equipped to ensure that they can be transported at the required temperatures and in particular that the temperature indicated in accordance with regulation 11 is not exceeded.

4.  Subject to paragraph 5, meat products shall be accompanied by the commercial document referred to in regulation 12(1)(c).

5.  The requirements of paragraph 4 shall not apply where it is possible to trace by means of an electronic information retrieval system, the information which would have been contained in the commercial document referred to in paragraph 4, at every link in the distribution chain from the original establishment of production to the final stage of marketing.