This content is exclusively provided by FAO / FAOLEX

Animals and Animal Products (Examination for Residues and Maximum Residue Limits) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.I. No. 54 of 2016).

Country
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Type of law
Regulation
Source
FAO , FAOLEX
Abstract
The Regulations implement as respects Northern Ireland Community legislation on residues of certain substances in foodstuffs of animal origin. The Regulations, among other things: (a) prohibit the sale, possession or administration to animals of specified substances; (b) prohibit slaughter or processing the meat of, animals intended for human consumption which contain, or which have been administered with, specified substances; (c) empower authorised officers to inspect and examine animals and to take samples and provide for the analysis of official samples; (d) provide for offences and penalties and for enforcement by each enforcement authority; (e) specify responsibilities of processors.
Attached files
http://faolex.fao.org/docs/pdf/ire155160.pdf
Web site
http://www.irishstatutebook.ie
Date of text
Repealed
No
Source language

English

Legislation Amendment
No
Implements
Council Directive 96/22/EC concerning the prohibition on the use in stockfarming of certain substances having a hormonal or thyrostatic action and of -agonists.
Council Directive 96/23/EC on measures to monitor certain substances and residues thereof in live animals and animal products and repealing Directives 85/358/EEC and 86/469/EEC and Decisions 89/187/EEC and 91/664/EEC.
Regulation (EC) No. 470/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down Community procedures for the establishment of residue limits of pharmacologically active substances in foodstuffs of animal origin, repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2377/90 and amending Directive 2001/82/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation (EC) No. 726/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
Commission Regulation (EU) No. 37/2010 on pharmacologically active substances and their classification regarding maximum residue limits in foodstuffs of animal origin.