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Meat Safety Act, 2000 (Act No. 40 of 2000)

Ostrich Regulations, 2007

Part VI : Meat Inspections

A. Ante mortem inspection

83. Further inspections and findings

 

 

1)
a) All ostriches that in the opinion of a registered inspector, who is not a veterinarian, doing ante mortem inspection as described in regulation 82, are not fit for slaughter must be examined by a veterinarian who is a registered inspector;
b) The veterinarian, must decide whether such birds may be slaughtered, provisionally slaughtered or disposed of;

 

2) If the veterinarian decides that a bird mentioned in sub regulation (1)(a) may be slaughtered or provisionally slaughtered, the carcass of such bird is subject to secondary meat inspection in terms of regulation 93.

 

3) An ostrich may not be slaughtered if it is suspected that a forbidden substance has -
a) been administered to it;
b) been implanted in it;
c) contaminated it; or
d) been eaten by it.