Separation of equipment for dealing with condemned products

(1) All tanks and equipment used for rendering, preparing or storing condemned products shall be in rooms or compartments separate from those used for rendering, preparing and storing edible products. There shall be no communication between those rooms or compartments containing edible and those containing condemned products provided that there may be one communicating door between the slaughtering department and the tank charging room of the condemned products rendering department. (2) Pipes or chutes of a design approved by an authorised officer may be installed to convey condemned material from the edible products department to the condemned products department. (3) The carcass of any animal which has been condemned on ante mortem examination shall not on its way to the condemned 80 Food and Drugs products tank be taken through any room or compartment in which edible products are prepared, stored or handled.