The Poultry Breeding Flocks and Hatcheries (Registration and Testing) Order 1989

Taking of samples from breeding flocks for bacteriological testing for salmonella

6.  It shall be the duty of a person whose name is entered in the Breeding Flocks Register in respect of any premises on which a breeding flock is kept by him to ensure that–

(a) samples are taken in respect of the flock in such manner as is specified in Part I of Schedule 3 and at such times as are so specified;

(b) such samples are identified in such a manner as to enable the laboratory to which they are submitted to know what type of samples they are, the name of the person entered in the Breeding Flocks Register in respect of the premises on which they were taken, the address of those premises and the house (if any) on those premises from which they were taken;

(c) such samples (other than those required to be taken under the supervision of an officer of the Minister) are dispatched, within 48 hours of being taken, or, in the case of samples required to be taken over a period of 4 consecutive days, within 48 hours of the end of that period, to a laboratory for testing (at his expense) for the presence of salmonella in accordance with an appropriate bacteriological method set out in Part III of that Schedule; and

(d) in the case of samples required to be taken under the supervision of an officer of the Minister they are given to him after being so taken for testing by the Minister for salmonella in accordance with such a bacteriological method.