Commencement Information
I1Sch. 3 Pt. III in force at 1.4.1999, see art. 1
8. The incubated composite media or equivalent shall be examined and the findings recorded, discarding cultures which are obviously not Salmonella. Slide serological tests shall be performed using Salmonella polyvalent “O” and polyvalent “H” (phase 1 and 2) agglutinating sera on selected suspect colonies collected from the blood agar or MacConkey plates. If reactions occur with one or both sera, the colonies shall be typed by slide serology and a subculture sent (in Scotland) to the Veterinary Laboratory, Lasswade, Midlothian and (in England and Wales) to a Veterinary Investigation Centre of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food for further typing.