Volume 14: Responsibilities for Human and Animal Health
1. Introduction
The legislative framework

1.9 The following chapters:

1. look briefly at the range of statutory powers available in respect of the topics listed below, including powers granted to Ministers to make secondary Orders or Regulations and to local authorities to make bylaws; ¹
2. outline the main pieces of primary legislation relating to Scotland and Northern Ireland, ² where these differed from those in place for England and Wales; and
3. describe how the legislation was deployed in respect of:
   
   Identification and control of animals showing symptoms of disease (Chapter 2)
   
   Red meat hygiene at the slaughterhouse (Chapter 3)
   
   Red meat hygiene after the slaughterhouse (Chapter 4)
   
   The treatment of material deemed unfit for human consumption (Chapter 5)
   
   Animal feed (Chapter 6)
   
   Human and veterinary medicines and cosmetics (Chapter 7)
   
   Pollution control and waste disposal (Chapter 8)
   
   Occupational health (Chapter 9).