ANNEX VExamination, sampling and testing procedures for avian influenza and Newcastle disease

(2)In addition to the testing set out in point 1, the following samples shall be taken for virological examination:

  1. (a)

    cloacal swabs (or faeces) and tracheal/oropharyngeal swabs, if possible, from clinically ill birds or ill sentinel birds;

  2. (b)

    from the intestinal contents, brain, trachea, lungs, liver, spleen, kidneys and other obviously affected organs as soon as possible following the death from either:

    1. (i)

      dead sentinel birds and all birds dead on arrival and those which die during quarantine; or

    2. (ii)

      in the case of high mortality in small birds of large consignments from at least 10 % of the dead birds.