Sausages, Salted Meat and Other Prepared Meat Regulations

SAUSAGES, SALTED MEAT AND OTHER PREPARED MEAT [S.L.231.19 1 SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 231.19 SAUSAGES, SALTED MEAT AND OTHER PREPARED MEAT REGULATIONS 1st May, 1978 LEGAL NOTICE 156 of 1977, as amended by Legal Notice 209 of 1998. Title.1. The title of these Regulations is Sausages, Salted Meat and other Prepared Meat Regulations. Interpretation.2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires "factory" means any premises used for making sausages , hamburgers, beefburgers and similarly prepared meat and salted meat and meat otherwise prepared; "to sell" includes to offer, expose, advertise or keep for sale and to supply by way of compensation or otherwise. Application of Regulations. 3. These Regulations shall apply to sausages and other prepared meat products, only when locally prepared. Sausages, etc., shall be made in factory. 4. No person shall make any meat into sausages, beefburgers, hamburgers and similarly prepared meat, salted meat and meat otherwise prepared except in a factory. Operator of factory to be licensed. Substituted by: L.N. 209 of 1998. 5. (1) No person shall use any premises as a factory or any other similar establishment, by whatever name called, unless there is in respect of such premises a valid licence for the purpose issued by the Superintendent of Public Health, and no person may open or carry on any such establishment unless he is in possession of a valid licence for the purpose by the Superintendent of Public Health. (2) No licence shall be granted or renewed under sub regulation (1) if the premises, equipment, facilities as well as personnel are not such as to provide such standard of quality of sausages, hamburgers, beefburgers, and similarly prepared meat, salted meat or meat otherwise prepared as the Superintendent of Public Health deems to be satisfactory. (3) The Superintendent of Public Health may, in granting or renewing any l icence under sub-regulat ion (1) , impose any condition as he may deem fit and may restrict the activities that may be carried on in the premises. (4) Where any premises are used or any act is done in contravention of any condition or restriction contained in a licence which had been granted or renewed under sub-regulation (1), any premises so used and any act so done shall be deemed to have been used or done without the licence required by this regulation. (5) Any licence granted under the provision of sub-regulation (1) shall lapse on the 31st December of the year in which it is issued, but such licence may be renewed by the Superintendent of Public Health from year to year. 2 [S.L.231.19 SAUSAGES, SALTED MEAT AND OTHER PREPARED MEAT Type and quality of meat to be used. 6. (1) All meat introduced into any factory shall be perfectly s o u n d a n d f i t t o b e p r e p a r e d i n t o s a u s a g e s , h a m b u r g e r s , beefburgers and similarly prepared meat, salted meat and meat otherwise prepared, and no person shall introduce or attempt to introduce into any factory any meat which is not in a wholesome condition and duly stamped according to law. (2) No person shall (a) without the permission of the Superintendent of Public Health, mix in the making of sausages, hamburgers, beefburgers and similarly prepared meat, the meat of animals of different species, or use any intestines that, in the opinion of the said Superintendent, are unsound or have not been sufficiently cleansed, or (b) use in the preparation of blood puddings, sausages, hamburgers, beefburgers, or similarly prepared meat, any entrails, blood or meat in a state of putrefaction or otherwise unfit for such use. (3) The skin, cartilage, tendons, ligaments, entrails and all such other parts of an animal as do not consist solely of the muscular tissue or fat shall be deemed to be unfit for such use. Persons may be searched. 7. All persons entering or leaving any factory shall be liable to search by an officer of the Department of Health whenever he deems it necessary. Sale of sausages, etc. Substituted by: L.N. 209 of 1998. 8. No person shall sell any sausages, hamburgers, beefburgers, salted meat or meat otherwise prepared, unless the product complies in all respects with the provisions of regulations 5 and 6, and unless the product has been processed at premises licensed in accordance therewith.