Hong Kong Regulations

SLAUGHTERHOUSES REGULATION - SECT 21

Examination and disposal of carcass, dressed carcass and offal

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) An authorized officer shall examine the carcass, or dressed  carcass and
offal of every food animal which is slaughtered in a licensed  slaughterhouse
or which is brought into a licensed slaughterhouse under section 12(2) and
shall detain the carcass or the whole or part of the dressed carcass or offal
if in his opinion it is unfit for human consumption.

(2) An authorized officer may cause the carcass or the whole or part of the
dressed carcass or offal detained under subsection (1) to be destroyed in such
manner as he thinks fit. (Enacted 1991. 78 of 1999 s. 7)