ANNEX IICONTROL OF ZOONOSES AND ZOONOTIC AGENTS LISTED IN ANNEX I

B.Minimum sampling requirements

1.After the relevant control programme referred to in Article 5 has been approved, food business operators must have samples taken and analysed to test for the zoonoses and zoonotic agents listed in Annex I, column 1, respecting the minimum sampling requirements set out in the following table.

1. Zoonosis or zoonotic agent

2. Animal population

3. Phases of production which sampling must cover

All salmonella serotypes with public health significance

Breeding flocks of Gallus gallus:

—

rearing flocks

—

day-old chicks

—

four-week-old birds

—

two weeks before moving to laying phase or laying unit

—

adult breeding flocks

—

every second week during the laying period

All salmonella serotypes with public health significance

Laying hens:

—

rearing flocks

—

day-old chicks

—

pullets two weeks before moving to laying phase or laying unit

—

laying flocks

—

every 15 weeks during the laying phase

All salmonella serotypes with public health significance

Broilers

—

birds leaving for slaughter22

All salmonella serotypes with public health significance

Turkeys

—

birds leaving for slaughter22

All salmonella serotypes with public health significance

Herds of pigs:

—

breeding pigs

—

animals leaving for slaughter or carcases at the slaughterhouse

—

slaughter pigs

—

animals leaving for slaughter or carcases at the slaughterhouse

The results of the analysis on the samples must be known before the animals leave for the slaughterhouse.

2.

The requirements laid down in point 1 are without prejudice to the requirements of Community legislation concerning ante mortem inspection.

3.The results of the analysis must be recorded, together with the following information:

  1. (a)

    date and place of sampling; and

  2. (b)

    identification of the flock/herd.

4.

Immunological testing may not be used if the animals have been vaccinated, unless it has been proven that the vaccine used does not interfere with the testing method applied.