tenderizer | tenderiser | meat tenderizer | tenderizing machine | meat tenderizing machine | mechanical tenderizer | mechanical meat tenderizer | mechanical tenderizing machine | mechanical meat tenderizing machine

tenderizer | tenderiser | meat tenderizer | manual tenderizer | meat hammer | tenderizer hammer | meat tenderizer hammer

meat tenderizer | tenderiser | tenderizer

meat tenderizer [ meat tenderizing machine | tenderizing machine | tenderizer ]

meat beating machine | meat tenderizer | tenderizer

Subgroup on Residues in Meat, Eggs, Milk ( Antibiotics, Thyrostatics,Tenderizers etc. )

use of mechanically separated meat | utilise mechanically separated meat | handle mechanically separated meat | use mechanically separated meat

Points 1. 14 and 1.15 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin must be interpreted as meaning that the product obtained by the mechanical removal of meat from flesh-bearing bones after boning or from poultry carcases must be classified as ‘mechanically separated meat’ within the meaning of that point 1.14, since the process used results in a loss or modification of the muscle fibre structure which is greater than that which is strictly confined to the cutting point, irrespective of the fact that the ...[+++]technique used does not alter the structure of the bones used. Such a product cannot be classified as a ‘meat preparation’ within the meaning of that point 1.15.

It is important that the Commission monitors the current situation and assesses the problems with regard to the definition of mechanically separated meat and the stringent application of the rules concerning the production and labelling of mechanically separated meat.

The Commission Communication on the future necessity and use of mechanically separated meat in the European Union, including consumer information reveals that the interpretation of the definition of what is to be considered mechanically separated meat varies across Member States.

Meat, minced meat and mechanically separated meat, of poultry, ratites and wild game-birds may only be imported into the Community from a third country or a part thereof listed in columns 1 and 3 of the table in Part 1 of Annex II where column 4 of that table provides for a model veterinary certificate for the meat, minced meat and mechanically separated meat of poultry, ratites and wild game-birds concerned.