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exempts certain vehicles operating from premises where similar
facilities are provided under other food hygiene regulations; these
Regulations enlarge the scope of the exemption so as to exclude,
subject to conditions, all food vehicles operating between such
premises and certain other premises.
Minor amendments are also made in the principal Regulations:-
(i) in Regulation 2(1), the definition of "container" is slightly
amended. Also, the definition of "food business", when read
with certain provisions, including some repeated from the
Food Hygiene (General) Regulations, 1960, limited them to
food delivery vehicles operating from a market or stall; the
definition as now amended applies these provisions to all food
delivery vehicles;
(ii) the requirement in Regulation 13(1) to display the address at
which a stall or delivery vehicle is kept is slightly amended;
(iii) Schedule 1 is amended to make it clear that meat totally
wrapped in paper or film is not to be regarded as open food
for the purposes of the principal Regulations.
The Council in its role as Market Undertaker has to meet
certain requirements itself. Consultation is taking place with traders
so that problems arising from the introduction of these Regulations
can be resolved to the satisfaction of all concerned.
The Slaughterhouses (Hygiene) (Amendment) Regulations, 1966
These Regulations come into operation on 1st February, 1967,
and amend the Slaughterhouses (Hygiene) Regulations, 1958. The
principal changes are:—
(a) regulation 19(2) and 19(3) and regulation 20 of the Slaughterhouses
(Hygiene) Regulations have been extended to
prohibit any person permitting the retention in a slaughterhouse
of any carcase of an animal slaughtered elsewhere,
unless specified conditions are complied with;
(b) the period which any animal intended for slaughter may be
kept in a slaughterhouse is limited to 72 hours except where
an authorised officer gives his consent, and subject to
certain conditions;
(c) an obligation to keep any lairage dean is imposed upon the
occupier of a slaughterhouse;
(d) the use of wiping cloths in the dressing of carcases is prohibited
but until 1st November, 1968, a wiping cloth may
be used on any carcase or offal, if it is sterilised before use,
and used on only one carcase and its associated offal before
re-sterilisation,