The Food Safety (Fishery Products and Live Shellfish) (Hygiene) Regulations 1998 No. 994

SCHEDULE 2 PRODUCTION AND PLACING ON THE MARKET CONDITIONS FOR LIVE SHELLFISH

CHAPTER I CONDITIONS FOR PRODUCTION AREAS

PART 2 CLASS 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.