specified risk material

That is why we put legislation in place to remove this specified risk material from the food chain.

The list of specified risk materials also forms part of this.

A significant part of the animal by-products of which we speak is specified risk material.

Secondly, the proposal on specified risk material was presented to the Council in December 1996.

Any other material from an animal which does not fall within the definition of specified risk material is fit for human consumption.

Improved methods for removing specified risk material from bovine carcasses.

I would like to refer first to the question of what is known as SAM or specified risk material.

The current program classifies the whole carcass as specified risk material, which has quickly shown serious bottlenecks in the system.

That is why it is important to maintain current safeguards, in particular the removal of specified risk material.

I can assure you that we will take full account of this statement in reviewing the decision about specified risk material over the next few weeks.

Finally, there have been far too many cases of meat containing specified risk material being exported into the United Kingdom.

The testing of all animals over 30 months and the removal of specified risk material should go a long way in restoring consumer confidence.

The position is that the proposal on specified risk material has been postponed by three months, from 1 January to 1 April.

Specified risk materials must already be marked as soon as they are removed from the carcasses, stored separately and finally destroyed.

Category one, which contains specified risk material, was implicated in the spread of BSE.

How will you evaluate the new specification of specified risk materials, even in the Standing Veterinary Committee?

However, the proposed requirements on the marking of unprocessed Category 1 material can be accepted only in the case of specified risk material.

And no doubt the Americans will raise their concerns about the risks to trade of any ban on specified risk materials used in pharmaceuticals and cosmetics.

So-called specified risk material, including the brain, spinal cord and intestines, from all healthy cattle is separated from the meat for human consumption.

Carcasses, half-carcasses and quarter-carcasses containing no specified risk material other than the vertebral column may be dispatched to another Member State.

The Commission has on several occasions reminded the Member States of the importance of properly implementing the removal of specified risk material.

Specified risk material (SRM)

One company in Ireland, Monery By-Products, is licensed to handle specified risk material, and it is already working near full capacity.

Specified risk material must only be removed at slaughterhouses or cutting plants authorised by the Food Standards Agency (FSA).

Approved slaughterhouses and cutting plants require additional authorisation to remove certain specified risk material (SRM) from cattle, sheep or goats, including: