Animal By-Products (Identification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 (S.R. No. 418 of 1999).

These Regulations make provision for the sterilisation and staining of animal by-products (defined in reg. 3) and for the control of the movement of such by-products. The Regulations do not apply to entire animals and specified products (regs. 4 and 5). The Regulations, inter alia: (a) require the immediate staining or sterilisation at a slaughter-house or game processing facility (reg. 6), or at any animal by-products premises (reg. 7), of animal by-products excluding poultry by-products and certain other specified by-products (reg. 5(2)); (b) prohibit the freezing of any animal by-product in any slaughter-house, game processing facility or animal by-products premises unless it has been sterilised or stained (reg. 8); (c) prohibit the storing of unsterilised animal by-products in the same room as products which are intended for human consumption and the storing of unsterilised animal by-products which are not properly packed and labelled in premises used for the storage of products fit for human consumption (reg. 9); (d) prohibit the movement from any slaughter-house, game processing facility or animal by-products premises of unstained or unsterilised animal by-products except in specified circumstances (reg. 10); (e) specify the bodies by whom the Regulations are to be enforced (reg. 12); and (f) create offences and prescribe penalties (reg. 14).