Since the process of producing a smokie requires that the skin and wool of the carcass be left in place and burned in one piece, the spinal cord is not removed from the carcass prior to consumption.
On 29 March 2005, and again on 6 April, the BBC television program Watchdog publicised the sale of smokies in London,[REF] two years after the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) told a conference about their production in Wales [REF].