The Processed Animal Protein Order 1989

UK Statutory Instrument 1989 No. 661 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created

0recorded in force

0revoked

Made: 13 April 1989
In force from: 3 June 1989
Extent: Not stated
Subject: Dogs, animals, hunting and wildlife
Made under: Animal Health Act 1981

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

This Order re-enacts the Diseases of Animals (Protein Processing) Order 1981 (“the 1981 Order”) with amendments. It continues to enable authorised officers to take for testing at a laboratory samples of processed animal protein from premises where it is produced (article 8). The Order makes the following changes of substance by– 1 requiring the registration of animal protein processors (article 5); 2 imposing a duty on the Registered person to ensure the taking of samples from processed animal protein and its submission to a laboratory for testing for salmonella (article 6); 3 imposing a duty on the Registered person to ensure (where he knows that a test on a sample has proved positive) that for a period of one month no processed animal protein produced on premises in respect of which his name is entered in the Register is (without further treatment and testing) removed from premises occupied by him or under his control and is not incorporated in a feeding stuff for livestock or poultry, unless the processed animal protein to be removed is taken from a separate storage facility or under the authority of a licence (article 7); 4 prohibiting any tampering with samples (article 10); and 5 requiring Registered persons to keep records of the results of tests on samples (article 11) and to give information to enable the tracing of contaminated feeding stuffs (article 12). The provisions requiring the registration of animal protein processors shall come into force on 13th June 1989. Until that date the duties of a Registered person under the Order shall be the duties of the owner or person in charge of the premises which are used in the course of a business for processing animal protein (articles 1(2) and 3(2)). Until 13th August 1989 samples taken under the Order are required to be tested at laboratories which have the necessary facilities and personnel for carrying out the tests in accordance with the Order and after that date the samples are required to be tested at laboratories authorised in writing by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food for this purpose.

Offences created by this instrument

Any person who, without lawful authority or excuse, proof of which shall lie on him– a contravenes any provision of… article 13 · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind

What Parliament said about it

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Salmonella In Animal Feedingstuffs Lords · Lords Chamber · 26 June 1989 · Baroness Trumpington
My Lords, the materials have been used for many years, and their use is controlled by legislation in two ways. First, the Waste Food Order 1973 prohibits the feeding to livestock and poultry of waste food unless it has first been processed by means of plant or equipment the operation of which is licensed. Secondly, it is controlled by the Processed Animal Protein Order 1989 as I have just described.
Salmonella In Animal Feedingstuffs Lords · Lords Chamber · 26 June 1989 · Lord Gallacher
My Lords, can the noble Baroness say whether the Ministry is now satisfied with the drafting of the Processed Animal Protein Order 1989, No. 661, in view of defects alleged about the drafting of the order by the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments in its 19th Report?

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