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

Red Meat Regulations, 2004

Part VI : Meat Inspections [Section 11(1)(j)]

B. Primary meat inspections

(1) Cattle

89. Inspection of cattle red offal

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When inspecting the red offal, the registered inspector must inspect -

a)the surface of the visceral pleura, by observation;
b)the liver by palpation and incisions into the gastric surface and the base of the caudate lobe to open the bile ducts;
c)the hepatic lymph nodes, by multiple incisions into the Ln. hepaticus;
d)the trachea, by a lengthwise incision and the oesophagus by observation;
e)the lungs, by palpation and an incision in their posterior thirds perpendicular to their main axes to open the main branches of the bronchi;
f)the Lnn mediastinales, by multiple incisions;
g)the Lnn bronchiales bilaterally, by multiple incisions;
h)the pericardium and the heart, by an incision made lengthwise to cut through the interventricular septum and open the ventricles and two additional vertical cuts into the split septum;
i)the spleen, by visual inspection and if necessary by incision;
j)the tail, by observation;
k)the thyroid gland, by observation;
l)both sides of the diaphragm, by observation; and
m)the testes, by observation.