Hong Kong Regulations

SLAUGHTERHOUSES REGULATION - SECT 29

Licensee's general duty to dispose of condemned meat and offal, etc.

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

PART VII

DISPOSAL OF CARCASS, CONDEMNED MEAT AND OFFAL AND WASTE MATTER OF FOOD ANIMAL

(1) Subject to sections 16(3), 21(2) and 24(2), a licensee shall in accordance
with sections 30 and 31 dispose of all condemned meat and offal arising from
examination of the carcasses or dressed carcasses or offal of food animals.

(2) A licensee shall in accordance with sections 30 and 31 dispose of-

   (a)  any food animal found dead before slaughter with the exception of a
        carcass brought to the licensed slaughterhouse for examination under
        section 12(2);

   (b)  the blood of a food animal other than that collected for edible
        purposes from a slaughtered food animal under hygienic conditions
        which satisfy an authorized officer;

   (c)  loose hairs, bristles, stomach contents and other unwanted parts of a
        carcass and waste matter obtained from a slaughtered food  animal; and

   (d)  all food animal manure and other refuse, garbage or filth generated in
        his licensed slaughterhouse. (Enacted 1991. 78 of 1999 s. 7)