Cutting plants authorised to remove SRM bovine vertebral column

Monday 6 February 2012

Vertebral column is specified risk material (SRM) in cattle older than 30 months and can only be removed in approved cutting plants which have been additionally authorised to do so under the TSE Regulations.

A number of cutting plants, listed below, have been authorised to remove SRM bovine vertebral column.

Other plants will be added to this list as they are authorised.

For further information about cutting plants authorised to remove SRM bovine vertebral column, please contact:

Chris Walding
Food Standards Agency
Aviation House
125 Kingsway
London WC2B 6NH
tel: 020 7276 8334
email: chris.walding@foodstandards.gsi.gov.uk