§ 44. Mr. Charles R. Morrisasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he will make a statement expanding on the letter his Department wrote to Manchester Corporation on the subject of standards of hygiene in public slaughterhouses indicating which of the regulations referred to in the European Economic Community directive dealing with standards of hygiene in public slaughterhouses he believes would be impracticable or unjustifiably costly to introduce to this country.
§ Mrs. FennerThe EEC directive applies to intra-Community trade and for this purpose applies equally to public and to private slaughterhouses. The main requirements which the Government consider would be either impracticable or unjustifiably costly if applied generally to the domestic trade are the complete separation of pig slaughtering lines from other slaughtering lines and the provision of a separate casualty slaughterhall, and special bays for the cleansing and disinfection of vehicles.
§ Mr. John Hallasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if British slaughterhouses are up to the standard required under the regulations of the European Economic Community.
§ Mrs. FennerThose of our slaughterhouses approved for intra-Community trade comply with the directive but others are not required to.