Specified Risk Material (England) Order 1997 (S.I. 2964 of 1997).

This Order re-enacts with amendments the provisions of repealed Orders prohibiting the use of specified bovine material in feeding stuffs and cosmetic, pharmaceutical and medical products. The Order imposes controls on the import of class I specified risk material (defined in article 2), and requires imported food and feeding stuffs of the types set out in Schedule 1 to be certified by the veterinary authorities in the place from which they were despatched to the UK as not containing class I specified risk material (art. 6). The Order prohibits the use of specified risk material derived from animals slaughtered in the United Kingdom in ingredients for cosmetic, pharmaceutical and medical products (art. 7) and prohibits the use of all specified risk material in feeding stuffs for any creature, subject to an exemption for research purposes (art. 8). Article 10 of the Order provides for the approval of premises as suitable to process specified risk material in a manufacturing process not producing any food, feeding stuff, cosmetic, pharmaceutical or medical product or any product likely to come into contact with any of them. The Order contains provisions on transport, storage and sampling (arts. 11 to 13), and makes provision for the recall and disposal of specified risk material and feeding stuffs containing specified risk material imported, produced or sold in contravention of the Order (arts. 14 and 15). Article 16 prohibits the export of specified risk material to other member States, except in accordance with a licence granted by the Minister. Article 17 provides that local authorities are to enforce the Order.