The Animals, Meat and Meat Products (Examination for Residues and Maximum limits) Regulations 1991

Inspection of, and controls on, meat and meat products

19.  –

(1) If an authorised officer has reasonable grounds for suspecting that any meat or meat product is material the sale of which would contravene regulation 6 and considers that he requires to investigate it for the purposes of this regulation, he shall give notice of that fact to its owner.

(2) Following the giving of a notice referred to in paragraph (1) above and unless and until it is withdrawn, the owner to whom it is given shall neither–

(a)sell the meat or meat product, or, in the case of any such meat forming part of a carcase at a slaughterhouse, the whole or any part of that carcase or its offal for human consumption or use it (wholly or partly) as an ingredient in the preparation of any meat product intended for sale for human consumption, nor

(b)remove it except to a place or for a purpose specified in the notice.

(3) A notice given under paragraph (1) above may at any time be withdrawn by a further notice in writing given by an authorised officer to the owner of the meat, meat product or carcase in question and shall be withdrawn if, as a result of his investigations, an authorised officer is satisfied that there is no meat or meat product to which the original notice relates the sale of which is, or will be, prohibited by regulation 6.