Guidelines for export slaughterhouses.

  • Meat and Livestock Commission
Date:
1974
Catalogue details

Licence: Open Government Licence

Credit: Guidelines for export slaughterhouses. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    WIPING CLOTHS PART IIL Reg. 25.42) ..se-. no person shall use a cloth for wiping or cleaning meat in a slaughterhouse. ENGLAND AND WALES APPENDIX PAGE 18 EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY WIPING CLOTHS The Slaughterhouses (Hygiene) (Amendment) Regulations 1966 No. 1318 Reg. 40A. ...... No person shall use in a slaughterhouse any wiping cloth for the purpose of wiping down any carcase or any offal. PROHIBITED HUMAN DISEASES PART 28 Notification of certain diseases. Reg. 7. (1) Upon any person engaged in the handling of any meat becoming aware that he is suffering from or is a carrier of, typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever or any other salmonella infection, or dysentery or other feverish disease or any staphylococcal or other infection likely to cause food poisoning, he shall forthwith give notice to the person having the management and control of the business for the purpose of which he is so engaged, and the person to whom any such notice is given as aforesaid, shall upon receiving the notice, forthwith notify the Medical Officer of Health for the area accordingly and shall furnish the Medical Officer of Health with any information reasonably required by him. (2) Where the person having the management or control of any slaughter- house or meat market becomes aware that he is himself suffering from any such condition or disease as is mentioned in the last foregoing paragraph he shall forthwith notify the Medical Officer of Health for the area and shall furnish the Medical Officer of Health with any information reasonably required by him. (3) in every slaughterhouse and meat market a notice, in such terms as the Secretary of State may approve, directing attention to the provisions of the foregoing paragraphs of this regulation requiring notice to be given of the Matters mentioned therein and requiring any person to whom any of those requirements applies to give notice in accordance with that requirement. MEDICAL CERTIFICATE NO SPECIFIC DEMAND PROHIBITED HUMAN DISEASES PART IV Reg. 34. (1) Subject to the provisions of this regulation, as soon as any person engaged in or about any slaughterhouse in the handling of meat or the handling of blood intended for human consumption becomes aware that he is suffering from, or is the carrier of, typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever or any other salmonella infection, or dysentery or any staphylococcal infection likely to cause food poisoning, he shall forth- with give notice of the fact to the occupier or person in charge of the slaughterhouse and such occupier or person in charge, as the case may be, , shall immediately after the receipt of the notice, notify the medical officer of health of the district in which the slaughterhouse is situated to the same effect. (2) Where the person required to give the notice referred to in paragraph (1) of this regulation is himself the occupier or person in charge of the slaughterhouse he shall immediately notify the medical officer of health of the district in which the slaughter- house is situated. MEDICAL CERTIFICATE NO SPECIFIC DEMAND ANNEX 1 CHAPTER V Cond: 22. Cleansing of meat with cloth, and blowing are prohibited. PROHIBITED HUMAN DISEASES ANNEX 1 CHAPTER III Cond: 12. Person likely to contaminate meat shall be prohibited from work on it and handling of it, in particular persons: (a) suffering froma suspected of suffering from Typhoid Fever, Paratyphoid A and B, infectious exteritis (salmonella), dysentery; infectious hepatitis, scarlet fever, or carriers or agents for these diseases; (b) suffering from or suspected of suffering from contagious tuberculosis}; (c) suffering from or suspected of suffering from a contagious skin disease; (d) carrying on simultaneously an activity through which microbes are likely to be transmitted to meat. (e) except for an impervious bandage protecting a non-infected wound on the finger. MEDICAL CERTIFICATE ANNEX 1 CHAPTER III Cond: 13. A medical certificate shall be required from any person working with meat. It shall state © that there is nothing to prohibit such work; it shall be renewed every year and each time the veterinary officer so requests; shall be kept available for the latter. |
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