2004/235/EC: Commission Decision of 1 March 2004 establishing additional guarantees regarding salmonella for consignments to Finland and Sweden of laying hens (Text with EEA relevance) (notified under document number C(2004) 582) (c. 235)

ANNEX I U.K.

1. General rules U.K.

The flock of origin must be isolated for 15 days.

The microbiological test must be carried out during the 10 days before forwarding of the consignment.

The microbiological test must include the following invasive serotypes:

• Salmonella gallinarum,

• Salmonella pullorum,

• Salmonella enteritidis,

• Salmonella berta,

• Salmonella typhimurium,

• Salmonella thompson,

• Salmonella infantis.

2. Sampling method U.K.

Composite faeces samples, each sample being composed of separate samples of fresh faeces, each weighing at least one gram, must be taken randomly at a certain number of points in the building in which the birds are being kept or, when the birds have free access to more than one building on a holding, taken in each group of buildings on the holding in which the birds are kept.

3. Number of samples to be taken U.K.

The number of samples must make it possible to detect with 95 % reliability a 5 % presence of salmonella.

F1 F2 4. Microbiological methods for examination of the samples U.K.

• Microbiological testing of the samples for salmonella should be carried out to the latest edition of the standard of the International Organisation for Standardisation ISO 6579 F1 ....

• F2 ...

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Annex 1 point 4 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Zoonotic Disease Eradication and Control (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/740), regs. 1, 4(5)(a)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2 Words in Annex 1 point 4 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Zoonotic Disease Eradication and Control (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/740), regs. 1, 4(5)(a)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)