General hygiene

No person shall– (a) change his clothes in any part of the slaughterhouse containing meat; (b) urinate, defecate, or spit in a slaughterhouse except in a sanitary convenience; (c) when stirring any blood intended for human consumption, permit his hand or other part of his person to come into contact with such (d) blow or inflate with his breath, or in any other manner likely to cause infection or contamination, the carcass of any animal intended for human consumption; (e) use in a slaughterhouse any knife, scabbard, sharpening steel, chopper or saw that has been used in a knacker’s yard; (f) use or cause to be used any equipment or substance which generate gases or odours, except as permitted by the Regulations or Food and Drugs 77 authorised officer in specific cases in which he determines such use will not result in adulteration of the meat or product.