Abattoirs (Control of Designated Bovine Offal) Regulations, 1996.

These Regulations controls the use of designated bovine offal. This offal must be removed in an approved slaughterhouse or abattoir and be kept separate from other meat and edible offal. It must then either be utilised under a licence issued by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry or shall be disposed of, only after rendering, in accordance with the provisions of European Communities (Disposal, Processing and Placing on the Market of Animal By-products) Regulations, 1994 (S.I. No. 257 of 1994). The separation of designated bovine offal from the carcase of a bovine animal may take place only in a slaughterhouse, abattoir or cutting plant which has been approved or licensed by the Minister or is operating under the Abattoirs Act, 1988 (No. 8 of 1988), the Pigs and Bacon Act, 1935 (No. 24 of 1935) or the Agricultural Produce (Fresh Meat) Act, 1930 (No. 10 of 1930).