The Fresh Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations 1992

means the following food sources namely— (a) domestic animals of the following species: bovine animals (including buffalo of the species Bubalus bubalis and Bison bison), swine, sheep, goats and solipeds;

means a member State of the European Community 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 the whole body of a slaughtered animal after bleeding, evisceration and removal of the limbs at the carpus and tarsus, removal of the head, tail and udder and, in addition, in the case of bovine animals, sheep, goats, farmed game and solipeds, after flaying;

means any premises, not forming part of a slaughterhouse, cutting premises, farmed game processing facility or a farmed game handling facility, used for the storage under temperature controlled conditions of fresh meat intended for sale for human consumption;

means the member State to which fresh meat is sent from another member State;

means premises used for the purpose of cutting up fresh meat intended for sale for human consumption;

means— (a) cutting fresh meat into cuts smaller than half carcases cut into three wholesale cuts;

means to apply hygienically satisfactory chemical or physical agents or processes with the intention of eliminating micro-organisms;

means to examine by making multiple deep incisions into lymph nodes;

means wild land mammals which are reared and slaughtered in captivity, excluding— (a) mammals of the family Leporidae, or (b) wild land mammals living within an enclosed territory under conditions of freedom similar to those enjoyed by wild game;

means any building, premises or place, other than a slaughterhouse, used for the purpose of slaughtering farmed game, the flesh of which is intended for sale for human consumption;

means meat obtained from farmed game;

means premises, other than a slaughterhouse, used for the purpose of dressing farmed game the flesh of which is intended for sale for human consumption;

means a person who buys fresh meat— (a) for his own consumption;

means an inspection or supervisory function carried out by a food authority at any slaughterhouse, cutting premises or cold store under the Fresh Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations 1992;

means a mark applied in accordance with regulation 11 and of a kind and in the manner set out in Schedule 12;

means an authorised officer who— (a) has any qualification specified in Schedule 22;

means any covered part of a slaughterhouse used for the confinement of animals awaiting slaughter there, but does not include any field, pasture or other open lairage forming part of any slaughterhouse or otherwise.

means 1 bovine animal or soliped, 3 swine or deer or 7 sheep or goats;

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

means a pit which is used to collect or contain dry sheep manure and which is situated beneath a self-cleaning open mesh or grating-type floor in a sheep lairage;

means all parts of animals which are suitable for human consumption;

means— (a) in relation to any person, other than a local authority, carrying on the business of a slaughterhouse, cutting premises or a cold store (either together or separately) or a farmed game processing or farmed game handling facility, that person or his duly authorised representative;

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

means a veterinary surgeon designated by the appropriate Minister;

means any slaughterhouse, cutting premises, cold store, farmed game handling facility or farmed game processing facility;

includes offer or expose for sale or have in possession for sale or supply, otherwise than by sale, in the course of a business;

means that part of the slaughterhouse in which animals are slaughtered or the bodies or slaughtered animals are dressed;

means any building, premises or place (other than a farmed game handling facility) for slaughtering animals, the flesh of which is intended for sale for human consumption, and includes any place available in connection therewith for the confinement of animals while awaiting slaughter there;

means the Food Safety Act 1990;

means the following Ministers acting jointly, namely the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales;

means a veterinary officer of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food;

means offal from the thoracic, abdominal and pelvic cavities, including the trachea and oesophagus;