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

means the person having the management or control of an approved laboratory;

means any of the following food sources namely animals of the bovine species (including buffalo of species Bubalus bubalis and Bison bison) swine, sheep, goats, solipeds, camelids, rabbits,deer and birds reared for human consumption;

has the meaning given to it in section 32 of the Medicines Act 1968;

means a member State other than the United Kingdom;

means, as respects England, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and, as respects Scotland or Wales, the Secretary of State;

means a laboratory approved by the appropriate Minister for the purposes of Council directive 86/469/EEC;

means any person (whether or not an officer of an enforcement authority) who is authorised in writing by that authority, either generally or specially, to act in matters arising under these Regulations;

means a transmissible substance the presence of which in any animal, meat or meat product is permitted by or in implementation of Community law;

means a beta-adrenoceptor agonist;

means– (a) the whole body of a slaughtered animal or bird (other than an uneviscerated bird) after bleeding and dressing;

means–

means– (a) as respects each London borough, metropolitan district or non-metropolitan county, the council of that borough, district or county;

means meat, including meat vacuum wrapped or wrapped in a controlled atmosphere,which has not undergone any preserving process other than chilling or freezing;

means any substance within either of the following categories– (a) stilbenes and thyrostatic substances;

means the flesh or other part of an animal suitable for human consumption;

means a product prepared from or with meat which has undergone treatment such that the cut surface shows that the product no longer has the characteristics of fresh meat;

means meat other than that of the carcase whether or not naturally connected to the carcase;

means a sample taken by an authorised officer for analysis for the purpose of these Regulations– (a) from an animal, its excrement or body fluids or from its tissues or fresh meat and which bears a reference to the species, the type, the amount and the method of collection and the identification of the origin of the animal or the meat;

includes, in relation to any animal, the person in charge of such animal and in relation to any meat or meat product the person in possession of such meat or meat product;

means an analysis of an official sample carried out by an approved laboratory;

means an analyst’s certificate specifying the finding of a primary analysis;

means an analysis carried out by an approved laboratory to check the finding of a primary analysis;

means an analyst’s certificate specifying the finding of a reference analysis;

means a residue of a transmissible substance;

has the same meaning as in the Medicines (Stilbenes and Thyrostatic substances) Regulations 1982;

means the Animals, Meat and Meat Products (Examination for Residues and Maximum Residue Limits) Regulations 1991;”

has the same meaning as in the Medicines (Stilbenes and Thyrostatic Substances) Regulations 1982;

means any substance having a pharmacological action or any conversion product thereof or any other substance which if transmitted to meat would be likely to be dangerous to human health;

means– (a) in relation to a substance administered to an animal in the United Kingdom, a transmissible substance in respect of which there is neither– (a) any current veterinary medical product license authorising its sale or supply for use in that animal in the United Kingdom;

has the same meaning as in the Medicines(Restriction on the Administration of Veterinary Medicinal Products) Regulations 1983, except that it excludes neither medicinal additives for feedingstuffs to which the provisions of Council directive 70/524/EEC apply nor medicated feedingstuffs;

means a product license granted under the Medicines Act 1968 in respect of a veterinary medicinal product;

means a person registered in the register of veterinary surgeons or in the supplementary veterinary register;

has the same meaning as in the Medicines (Medicated Animal Feedingstuffs) Regulations 1989;