Meat Inspection and Control of Public Abattoirs and Export Slaughter Houses Regulations.

These Regulations regulate the admittance of animals to public abattoirs and export slaughterhouses, and provide rules for the (hygienic) practice of slaughtering in such places, the marking of carcasses and the storage of meat. The regulations mentioned in the second column of the Third Schedule to these Regulations shall apply to the area or place specified in the first column thereof. No bovine or swine shall, in a township, be slaughtered outside a public abattoir or an export slaughterhouse. An "export slaughter house" means any slaughterhouse where cattle or pigs are slaughtered and processed for export. Any animal showing clinical signs of illness of any kind shall not be allowed to enter a Botswana Meat Commission's abattoir. The Regulations contains also rules relative to the inspection of meat and the disposal of condemned meat.