Health of Animals Regulations

170 (1) No person shall have any prohibited material or anything, including an animal food for equines, porcines, chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, ratites or game birds, that contains prohibited material on the same premises or in the same conveyance as a product of a rendering plant that does not contain prohibited material or any animal food for ruminants, without having procedures to prevent the mixing or contamination of the rendering plant product or animal food for ruminants, with prohibited material.

(2) In a case referred to in subsection (1), the person shall

• (a) ensure that the procedures are followed from the time the product or animal food is received until it leaves their possession, care or control; and

• (b) keep for 10 years a written record of the rendering plant products, the animal food for ruminants and the prohibited material.

(3) If a person fails to comply with subsection (1),

• (a) the person shall change the records to show that all of the product or animal food is prohibited material and any label on any packaging or container containing the product or animal food shall be marked conspicuously, legibly and indelibly with a statement approved by the Minister that indicates that the product or animal food shall not be fed to ruminants;

• (b) all of the product or animal food shall be considered to be prohibited material for the purposes of section 164; and

• (c) the person shall recall any product or animal food that may have been destined for feeding to ruminants if the product or animal food is found to contain prohibited material or if the Minister has reasonable grounds to believe that the product or animal food contains prohibited material.