160.1 Every person to whom a permit or licence is issued under these Regulations shall comply with the conditions contained in the permit or licence.

• 161. (1) An inspector may issue a licence authorizing the marketing, selling, disposing, exposing for sale or transporting of animals or things affected with or suffering from or suspected of being affected with or suffering from infectious or contagious disease.

• (2) A licence issued pursuant to subsection (1) may state how, when and where animals or things affected with or suffering from or suspected of being affected with or suffering from infectious or contagious disease may be marketed, sold, disposed of, exposed for sale or transported.

• (3) A licence issued pursuant to subsection (1) is valid only when used by the person to whom it is issued.

• (4) No person shall sell or transfer a licence issued pursuant to subsection (1) to any other person.

• 162. (1) In this Part, “prohibited material” means anything that is, or that contains any, protein that originated from a mammal, other than

  • (a) a porcine or equine;

  • (b) milk or products of milk;

  • (c) gelatin derived exclusively from hides or skins or products of gelatin derived exclusively from hides or skins;

  • (d) blood or products of blood; or

  • (e) rendered fats, derived from ruminants, that contain no more than 0.15% insoluble impurities or their products.

• (2) Prohibited material that has been treated in a manner approved by the Minister to inactivate the agents that cause transmissible spongiform encephalopathies is no longer prohibited material.

• 163. (1) A person who identifies prohibited material by means of adding to it a marker or tracer substance that has been approved by the Minister in the manner specified in that approval, is not required to keep the records referred to in subsections 165(2) and 166(2) and section 171.

• (2) Every person who identifies prohibited material in accordance with subsection (1) shall maintain a record of the manner in which the marker or tracer substance was added to the prohibited material.

164. No person shall feed prohibited material to a ruminant.

• 165. (1) No person shall operate a rendering plant unless the person does so under and in accordance with a permit issued pursuant to section 160.

• (1.1) No person who operates a rendering plant shall manufacture a prohibited material on the same premises as material not prohibited from being fed to ruminants without having dedicated manufacturing lines, equipment and conveyances to prevent the mixing or contamination of material not prohibited from being fed to ruminants with or by prohibited material.

• (2) Every person who operates a rendering plant shall keep a record of

  • (a) the date of production of all products of the rendering plant;

  • (b) whether or not any product of the rendering plant is, or contains any, prohibited material;

  • (c) the name, and quantity of, and any other information that is sufficient to identify, the products of the rendering plant; and

  • (d) the name and address of any person to whom any product of the rendering plant is distributed or sold and the information referred to in paragraph (c) with respect to that product.

• (3) The records that are required by subsection (2) to be kept by a person who operates a rendering plant shall be kept by that person for 10 years from the date the requirement arises.

• (4) No person who operates a rendering plant shall distribute or sell any product of the rendering plant that contains prohibited material unless the documentation required by these Regulations relating to the product and any label on any packaging or container containing the product is marked conspicuously, legibly and indelibly with the following statement:

  “Feeding this product to cattle, sheep, deer or other ruminants is illegal and is subject to fines or other punishment under the Health of Animals Act./Il est interdit d’en nourrir les boeufs, moutons, cerfs et autres ruminants et des amendes ou autres peines sont prévues à cet égard par la Loi sur la santé des animaux.”