Commission Regulation (EU) No 200/2012 of 8 March 2012 concerning a Union target for the reduction of Salmonella enteritidis and Salmonella typhimurium in flocks of broilers, as provided for in Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance) (c. 200)

ANNEX U.K. Testing scheme necessary to verify the achievement of the F1 ... target as referred to in Article 1(2)

Textual Amendments

F1 Word in Annex heading omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Zoonotic Disease Eradication and Control (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/740), regs. 1, 9(5)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

3. LABORATORY ANALYSIS U.K.

3.5. Storage of strains U.K.

The competent authority shall ensure that at least one isolated strain of Salmonella serotypes from sampling as part of official controls per house and per year is stored for future phagetyping or antimicrobial susceptibility testing, using established methods for culture collection, which must ensure integrity of the strains for a minimum period of two years from the date of the analysis.

The competent authority may decide that isolates from sampling by food business operators shall also be stored for future phagetyping or antimicrobial susceptibility testing to provide for isolates to be tested in accordance with [F2 Commission Implementing Decision 2013/652/EU].

Textual Amendments

F2 Words in Annex point 3.5 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Zoonotic Disease Eradication and Control (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/740), regs. 1, 9(5)(h); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)