The Food Safety (Live Bivalve Molluscs and Other Shellfish) (Import Conditions and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1994

5.  Bivalve molluscs or other shellfish shall—

(a) have been handled hygienically;

(b) if they are bivalve molluscs, where appropriate, have been purified or subject to intensive purification at a purification centre which is governed by requirements at least as stringent as those governing purification centres approved in accordance with the principal Regulations and in respect of which there has been no derogation under the Derogations Regulations; and

(c) have been packed in sealed packages at a dispatch centre which is governed by requirements at least as stringent as those governing dispatch centres which have been approved in accordance with the principal Regulations and in respect of which there has been no derogation under the Derogations Regulations.