Legaware - Requirements for the raw materials of minced meat, meat preparations and mechanically separated meat (MSM) handed to consumer

Requirements for the raw materials of minced meat, meat preparations and mechanically separated meat (MSM) handed to consumer

Legal obligation

Human, Judiciaire, Financière, Valeur d'entreprise

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What are the risks ?

Human : 1

Judiciaire : 1

Financière : 450 €

Valeur d'entreprise : 4

Valeur d'entreprise : 5

Means

Food business operators producing minced meat, meat preparations or MSM must ensure that the raw materials used satisfy the following requirements.

1. The raw material used to prepare minced meat must meet the following requirements.

(a) It must comply with the requirements for fresh meat;
(b) It must derive from skeletal muscle, including adherent fatty tissues;
(c) It must not derive from:

(i) scrap cuttings and scrap trimmings (other than whole muscle cuttings);
(ii) MSM;
(iii) meat containing bone fragments or skin; or
(iv) meat of the head with the exception of the masseters, the non-muscular part of the linea alba, the region of the carpus and the tarsus, bone scrapings and the muscles of t...Log in to see the rest ...

Exclusion

This obligation does not apply in relation to: (a) primary production for private domestic use; (b) the domestic preparation, handling or storage of food for private domestic consumption; (c) the direct supply, by the producer, of sma...Log in to see the rest ...

Authority

Direction départementale de la cohésion sociale et de la protection des populations (DDCSPP)

Regional Directorate for Food, Agriculture and Forestry

Prefecture

Responsible

Exploitant du secteur alimentaire

Sources

Legal Sources

Arrêté du 21 décembre 2009 relatif aux règles sanitaires applicables aux activités de commerce de détail, d'entreposage et de transport de produits d'origine a

Code de commerce - articles R310-8 à R310-9

Code rural et de la pêche maritime

Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29