Meat Products (Hygiene) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Part IIRequirements for Rewrapping Centres

The occupier of premises approved in accordance with regulation 5(3)(a)(ii) shall comply with the appropriate requirements—

1.—(a) for premises in which meat products are rewrapped, the appropriate conditions in Schedule 1 and Schedule 2, Part I, paragraph 1(a), (b), (d), (e) and (f) and paragraph 2(a), (c), (i) and (j); or

(b)for premises in which unpackaged meat products are assembled for despatch elsewhere, the appropriate conditions in paragraph 1 of Part VII of Schedule 2.

2.—(a) The United Kingdom EC health mark or the Northern Ireland regional health mark must be applied to meat products at a rewrapping centre if the mark applied at the production establishment is removed or destroyed;

(b)If meat products are put together into batches for despatch from the centre without removal of their original wrapping and the mark applied at the production establishment remains intact, the centre need not apply the United Kingdom EC health mark or Northern Ireland regional health mark to further packaging;

(c)The United Kingdom EC health mark or Northern Ireland regional health mark must be applied to unpackaged meat products which have been stored under refrigerated conditions in a rewrapping centre. It shall be affixed to the last packaging applied at the centre, where such a last packaging is applied: and for the purposes of this Schedule “last packaging” means the final container or covering enclosing the meat products.

3.  Occupiers of rewrapping centres must maintain adequate records so that an authorised officer of the enforcement authority may trace a rewrapped meat product back to its production establishment.