• Cattle born/reared in UK before 1st Aug 1996 are not for human consumption and cannot be moved from the farm.

• Different age requirements for removal of Specified Risk Materials (see Lecture PH26)

• Under 30 Months (UTM): fit for slaughter with correct ID.

• Over 30 Months (OTM): carcases dispatched to approved cutting plants to remove the vertebral column (Specified Risk Material).

• If emergency slaughter only: Over 48 months need brain

stem tested for BSE. 

• –  All cattle passports for slaughtered animals, whether the old or new style, will be returned to the BCMS via the Food Standards Agency. 

MHI or OV to verify FBO compliance by checking 10%, 25% or 100% of bovine and 100% of equine animals slaughtered for human consumption:

• –  PASSPORT - Valid official documentation (passport or others)

• –  EAR TAGS – Official ID in both ears

• –  AGE: dentition checks to ensure they comply with age criteria

– Match: TAG = PASSPORT 

Sheep and goats imported from other EU countries must be identified with two ID tags with the same individual ID number.

Animals from the Republic of Ireland (ROI) may have two non-identical tags 

Sheep and goats imported from non EU countries must be double tagged with two identical UK tags:

• within 14 days of their arrival

• before they leave the holding of import. 

These animals are identified following the same rules as described till now but with no EID tags.

- 2 ear tags required in animals not intended for slaughter before reaching 1 year ago. 

- 1 eartag for animals going to slaughter before they reach 1 year of age. 

No movement documents are needed when:

• Moving animals within the same farm where animals are moving across land under the same farmer management of control

• Moving animals within the same business to or from the main site, where the distance moved is within 5 miles of the main site

• Any movement to or from a vet. 

Animal Movement Licence AML1:

• Address, including postcode and CPH of the holdings from, and to which the sheep are being moved

• Date the movement is taking place

• Number of sheep the document covers

• FBO must retain for 6 months

• FBO must send a copy to the LA within 3 days of the arrival of a sheep. 

FBO should have in place, in agreement with the OV:

• a system to check that all sheep are tagged.

• check between 2-5% of each consignment, based on risk, to verify that their tags correlate with the movement document.

• a system to notify the OV of arrival of animals in the slaughterhouse.

  The minimum percentage should be applied to batches coming directly from the farm, with no previous history of identification problems.

  
  

  Maximum percentages should be applied to batches originating at:

  – Non-compliant farms / suppliers

  – Mixed batches
  

  (with no previous history or non-compliant history) 

May be consigned to the slaughterhouse in a composite group comprising sheep from many different farms.

• Identification checks may be carried out: – At the slaughterhouse
– At the market
– By a combination of checks at both premises

• This information should be shown on the movement document which accompanies the animals (AML1 and commercial documents),

• –  Sheep can be deemed to be properly identified within the requirements of SAGRIMO if the animal bears an ear tag showing the farm where the animal was born.

• –  Animals are ID in such a way that it enables them to be related to the food chain information (FCI).

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• Difficultiesmayarisefromlossofatagorfromlackof correlation with the information on the movement document or in the FCI.

• Theidentityofasheepmaybeconsidered “Reasonably Ascertainable” if it can be traced back to its last holding.

• FSAstaffmayreferto:
  – Movement documentation
  – Tagging
  – Batch homogeneity (does this sheep “fit” into this batch?) 

  – Farm checks carried out by the Local Authority. 

• Scotland – The Pigs (Records, Identification and Movement) Order 2011 as amended.

• England – The Pigs (Records, Identification and Movement) Order 2011.

• Wales - The Pigs (Records, Identification and Movement) Order 2011. 

All pigs arriving at the slaughterhouse should be identifiable by means of an identification mark, this can be:

– Slapmark,

– Eartag
– Tattoo 

EAR tag in scotland: the ear tags may be made of metal or plastic, ora combo of both. however must be sufficiently heat resistant that neither the eartag nor the information printed or stamped on it can be damaged by the processing of the carcase. 

• Pigs imported from outside the European Union must be identified at the destination holding with an ear tag or tattoo containing the letters "UK" followed by the herd mark and the letter "F" unless the pigs are delivered directly to slaughter.

• Pigs moving to slaughter require an Animal Movement Licence - AML2 or eAML2 form completed.

• The document must be retained for at least 6 months by the FBO, who must also send a copy to the local authority within 3 days of the arrival of a pig.

  PIGS AND SHEEP NEED ANIMAL MOVEMENT LICENSE 

• The eAML2 system captures the following information:

  • –  The address, including postcode and CPH number of the holdings from, and to which, the pig is being moved.

  • –  The date the movement is taking place.

  • –  The number of pigs being moved.

  • –  The identification mark of the pigs.

  • –  Pig movements from a market, the lot numbers of the pigs

    being moved.

• In Scotland, with effect from 1 December 2011, details of pigs moving to slaughter should be notified to the ScotEID movement reporting database electronically, by telephone or in writin4g3. 

Any equidae slaughtered for human consumption or consigned for such slaughter must be accompanied by a valid passport which does not show that the animal is not intended for slaughter for human consumption:

• –  Section IX Part II is not signed,

• –  There are no other stamps or markings within the

  passport which indicate that the horse is not intended for

  human consumption).

• –  Record any vet. Treatment (e.g. Phenilbutazone). 

   

  • Foals born on or after 1 July 2009 must also be mandatorily implanted with a microchip transponder. These may enter the food chain if Section IX is not signed.

  • Horses not in possession of a passport after 1 July 2009 will be signed out of the food chain upon application, and must also be mandatorily implanted with a microchip transponder in the area around the nuchal ligament.

     

    • A private veterinary surgeon (PVS) or other person administering any veterinary medicinal product to a horse must first check the passport to ascertain whether the horse is intended for human consumption.

    • The PVS must record details of any substance administered (including vaccines) which appears in the list of medicines considered essential for horses, as required by Regulation (EC) No. 1950/2006 (as amended by Regulation (EU) No. 122/2013).
      These substances have a set minimum six month withdrawal period before horses can enter the food chain. 

     

• The annex to Regulation (EU) 37/2010 contains 2 lists of pharmacologically active substances:

  – Table 1 lists allowed substances, which may be administered to food-producing animals.

  – Table 2 lists prohibited substances, which may not be administered to food-producing animals.

• In the event that a medicine containing any of the substances listed in Table 2 is administered to a horse, the animal can never be slaughtered for human consumption.

• The owner or PVS must sign Part II of Section IX of the passport to declare the horse as “not intended

for human consumption”. 

FCI = all the information regarding a batch of animals with relevance to the FBO, and the OV.

• FBO uses the FCI to:
– Reduce risk of hazards to the consumer.
– Minimise cross contamination during slaughter.

• OV uses the FCI to:
– Properly assess the health, welfare and inspection

requirements of a batch of animals intended for slaughter. 

Legislation in place requires: • Primary producer:

– Must keep records

• Slaughterhouse operators:
– Must request, receive, check and act upon FCI

• OV:
– Must take account of FCI when conducting AMI and

PMI
– Must feed back inspection data to producer 

Food Chain Information 

Legislation states must arrive no less than 24 hours before animals:
– Ideally for poultry – plan slaughter schedule
– For other species – can come with animal

– Up to FBO as to what he requests

• Guidelines available for what FCI should include: – Status of holding
– Animal health status
– Any vet products/treatments

– Any occurrence of disease – Any test results 

OV Use of FCI 

OV checks and analyses FCI and may decide:

• –  If animals have disease/condition transmissible to humans or animals

  through handling/eating meat, MUST be rejected for slaughter.

• –  May be killed separately under conditions so no cross-contamination with fit meat, then disposed of as by-product.

• –  Change slaughterhouse process: - decrease line speed,

  - increase number of inspectors.

• –  Slaughter particular batch last.

• –  Detain for further testing (animals or carcases). 

• OV may permit slaughter:

– In such cases the OV must detain carcases of animals slaughtered in the absence of FCI, and their related offal, pending receipt of FCI.

• FCI should arrive within 24 hours of

slaughter:

– If not – declared unfit, and carcases rejected.

• Inform Trading Standards. 

• If inspections (post or ante-mortem) reveal any disease or condition that might:
  – Affect public or animal health
  – Compromise welfare

  ...FSA must inform FBO.

• If problem arose during primary production, OV must inform: – Farmer
  – Farmer’s vet
  – Animal Health (Defra) – if appropriate

• Accurate recording of findings essential: – Electronic