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The Specified Risk Material Order 1997

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Specified risk material for consumption by any creature

8.—(1) No person shall sell any specified risk material for use in the preparation of any feeding stuff.

(2) No person shall use any specified risk material in the preparation of any feeding stuff.

(3) No person shall sell any specified risk material, or any feeding stuff containing specified risk material, for feeding to any creature.

(4) No person shall feed to any creature—

(a)any specified risk material;

(b)any feeding stuff containing specified risk material; or

(c)a whole carcase or any part of a sheep, goat or bovine animal from which specified risk material has not been removed in accordance with the Specified Risk Material Regulations 1997.

(5) Paragraph (4) above shall not apply to the feeding to any creature of any specified risk material or feeding stuff for research purposes in a research establishment under the authority of a licence issued by a veterinary inspector of the Minister and in accordance with any conditions subject to which the licence is issued, and paragraph (2) above shall not apply to the use of any specified risk material in the preparation of any feeding stuff for such feeding.

(6) For the purposes of this article—

(a)“creature” does not include a human being; and

(b)a feeding stuff shall be treated as containing specified risk material if it contains anything derived from it.

(7) It shall be a defence for any person charged with an offence under any of paragraphs (1) to (4) above to prove that he did not know or have any reason to believe that the material was, or the feeding stuff contained, specified risk material.

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