Beef Bones Regulations 1997

Beef Bones Regulations 1997
Statutory Instrument
Parliament of the United Kingdom
CitationSI 1997/2959
Dates
Commencement16 December 1997
Text of the Beef Bones Regulations 1997 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.
A cooked T-bone steak, illegal to sell under the regulations until 1999

The Beef Bones Regulations 1997 was a statutory instrument of the British government that limited the sale of beef on the bone. The regulations were implemented as a response to the United Kingdom BSE outbreak (mad cow disease) over fears that variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in humans might be caused by the consumption of dorsal root ganglia, which lie near the bone. As well as beef on the bone, all beef-bone derived products were prohibited from sale. This had the effect of outlawing T-bone steaks, prime ribs and oxtail as well as some soups and stocks. Other aspects of the regulations dealt with the deboning of beef and the keeping of records in the food production industry. The restrictions on sales were lifted in December 1999 and the regulations as a whole were revoked in April 2008.