Specified Risk Material Order (Northern Ireland) 1997 (S.R. No. 551 of 2001).

The Order imposes controls on the import of class I specified risk material (defined in article 2) and requires imported food and feedingstuffs of the types set out in Schedule 1 to be certified by the veterinary authorities in the place from which they were despatched to Northern Ireland as not containing class 1 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 feedingstuffs for any creature, subject to an exemption for research purposes (art. 8). Article 10 of the Order provides for the licensing of premises as suitable to process specified risk material in a manufacturing process not producing any food, feedingstuff, cosmetic, pharmaceutical or medical product. The Order contains provisions on transport, storage and sampling (arts. 11 to 13), and makes provision for the recall and disposal of imported specified risk material and feedingstuffs containing specified risk material imported, produced or sold in contravention of the Order (art. 14). Article 15 prohibits the export of specified risk material to other member States, except in accordance with a licence granted by the Department.