The Products of Animal Origin (Disease Control) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009
These Regulations amend the Products of Animal Origin (Disease Control) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008 No. 431) (‘the 2008 regulations’) to implement requirements in section 4(d) of Annex II of Council Directive 92/119/EEC in respect of any meat from pigs with antibodies against swine vesicular disease in which disease has not been confirmed but which the Department has required to be slaughtered. Those pigs may only be slaughtered in a designated slaughterhouse and they must, whilst there, be kept separate from other pigs (regulation 6). The meat from the seropositive pigs cannot be exported (regulation 10(a)). This is ensured by marking and record keeping requirements in respect of the meat (regulations 8 and 11 respectively).