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Implementing Regulations of The Agriculture Law

Art. 227
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Issued by Ministry of Environment, Water & Agriculture (mewa.gov.sa) — Rules Library

Unsafe agricultural sector resources or products shall be seized in the following cases: 1. If they are infected with a disease, pest, chemical or nuclear pollution, or any contaminant which, if consumed, would endanger the health of humans, animals or the environment; 2. If they are established or suspected to contain higher than permissible residues of pesticides, veterinary preparations, chemicals, or microbial limits for agricultural products; 3. If the external appearance of the products is spoiled, putrefied, decomposed or changed; 4. If the products are handled in an unhealthy environment that renders the same unfit 103| Implementing Regulations of the Agriculture Law for consumption or harmful to health; 5. If the products are taken from a sick animal or an animal carrying a disease that could endanger human health, or from an animal that had died before it was slaughtered, or an animal that was slaughtered by a person without a valid health certificate, or if the slaughtered animal came into contact with sick animals in the event of communicable or epidemic diseases; 6. If the products are of unknown origin or do not bear a product label approved by the competent agencies; and 7. If the resources or products are brought from a prohibited area pursuant to the disease and pest eradication plans approved by the Ministry.

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