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The Food Safety (Fishery Products and Live Shellfish) (Hygiene) Regulations 1998

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CHAPTER ICONDITIONS FOR PRODUCTION AREAS

PART 1CLASS A AREAS

Areas to be designated class A areas

1.  An area from which live bivalve molluscs can be gathered for direct human consumption provided such molluscs satisfy the requirements specified in Chapter V.

PART 2CLASS B AREAS

Areas to be designated class B areas

2.  An area from which live bivalve molluscs may be gathered but only placed on the market for human consumption—

(a)after treatment in a purification centre or after relaying (followed, where necessary, by treatment in a purification centre); or

(b)after heat treatment by an approved process in an approved establishment.

Conditions in relation to a class B area

3.  Prior to relaying, treatment in a purification centre or heat treatment, the live bivalve molluscs from these areas must not exceed in 90% of samples the limits of—

(a)a five-tube, three-dilution MPN-test of 6,000 faecal coliforms per 100 grams of flesh; or

(b)4,600 E. coli per 100 grams of flesh.

4.  After any necessary relaying, purification and treatment, the live bivalve molluscs must satisfy the requirements of Chapter V.

PART 3CLASS C AREAS

Areas to be designated class C areas

5.  An area from which live bivalve molluscs can be gathered but placed on the market for human consumption only after—

(a)a relaying period of at least 2 months, followed, where necessary, by treatment in a purification centre; or

(b)heat treatment by an approved process in an approved establishment.

Conditions in relation to a class C area

6.  The live bivalve molluscs from these areas must not, prior to relaying and any periods of purification or heat treatment, exceed the limits of—

(a)a five-tube, three-dilution MPN-test of 60,000 faecal coliforms per 100 grams of flesh; or

(b)46,000 E. coli per 100 grams of flesh.

7.  After any necessary relaying, purification and treatment, the live bivalve molluscs must satisfy the requirements of Chapter V.

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