Extraction of parts, prohibition, and penalty

(1) An owner or operator of a slaughterhouse or rendering plant shall identify, remove and neutralize the risk materials in slaughterhouse or rendering plant authorized by the Authority for that purpose. (2) An owner or operator of a rendering plant shall not allow the storage of cattle or cattle tissues condemned due to BSE. (3) An owner or operator of a slaughterhouse or rendering plant shall not separate the muscle tissue from the skull and spinal column of cattle by mechanical means or by using high pressure. (4) An owner or operator of a slaughterhouse or rendering plant shall, subject to the approval of the Authority, establish and implement documented processes for the extraction of brains, tonsils, spinal cord, distal ileum, eyes, skull and vertebral column, and for avoiding contamination of other products. (5) Except as provided in subregulation (2), an owner or operator of a slaughterhouse or rendering plant shall deliver all brains, tonsils, spinal cord, distal ileum, eyes, skull and vertebral column, and other risk materials to the care of official veterinarians or to operators of officially recognized facilities, who shall guarantee the treatment or destruction in accordance with the procedures pursuant to section 57 of the Act. (6) A person who fails to comply with this Regulation commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars.