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

Poultry Regulations, 2006

Part VI : Meat Inspections

C. Recovery

81. Criteria for meat inspection and judgements

 

 

1) The entire carcass and organs must be condemned if-
a) any disease is accompanied by emaciation, and or dehydration;
b) advanced pathological changes are observed;
c) an abnormal condition has so spread that affected portions or organs cannot easily be separated from the rest of the carcass;
d) a disease is per acute, acute, severe or advanced;
e) the condition of the carcass, meat or viscera is aesthetically unacceptable; or
f) the carcass is contaminated and it cannot be trimmed off effectively.

 

2) Portions of the carcass and organs must be condemned if-
a) Affected by an abnormal condition;
b) contaminated;
c) severely bruised; or
d) in any other way rendered unsafe for human consumption.

 

3) Portions of poultry may be approved where removal and condemnation of affected parts or organs can be done.

 

4) The owner of an abattoir must keep record on a daily basis of the number of birds that have been slaughtered and the number of carcasses and portions that have been condemned and their condemned weight.

 

5) The provincial executive officer may specify the maximum throughput of the abattoir and the hourly rate at which poultry on a particular line may be slaughtered.