Food Regulation 2025
98Sale of meat for use as animal food
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98 Sale of meat for use as animal food
98 Sale of meat for use as animal food
A person must not sell, by wholesale or on meat retail premises, meat for use as animal food or as an ingredient of processed animal food unless—
(a) the meat, or the carcase from which the meat was taken, has been supplied from premises that are—
(i) authorised by a licence to be operated as an abattoir, game meat primary processing plant or knackery, or
(ii) an abattoir, game meat primary processing plant or knackery that is operating in accordance with the laws of the place in which the premises are situated, or
(b) the meat is game meat from a kangaroo or feral goat and has been packaged, processed, treated, boned or cut up on premises that are—
(i) authorised by a licence to be operated as an animal food processing plant, or
(ii) operating as the equivalent of an animal food processing plant in accordance with the laws of the place in which the premises are situated.