1. SAMPLING FRAME
The sampling frame shall comprise all flocks of fattening and breeding turkeys within the framework of the national control programmes provided for in Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003.
2. MONITORING IN TURKEYS
2.1.
Frequency of sampling
(a) Food business operators shall sample all flocks of fattening and breeding turkeys in the following way:
(i) sampling of flocks of fattening and breeding turkeys shall take place within three weeks before slaughter. The competent authority may authorise sampling in the last six weeks prior to the date of slaughter in case the turkeys are either kept more than 100 days or fall under organic turkey production according to Commission Regulation (EC) No 889/2008(1);
(ii) sampling of flocks of breeding turkeys shall take place:
— in rearing flocks: at day-old, at four weeks of age and two weeks before moving to the laying phase or laying unit,
— in adult flocks: at least every third week during the laying period at the holding or at the hatchery,
— on the holding in the case of flocks of breeding turkeys laying hatching eggs intended for the trade within the Union.
(iii) The competent authority may decide to implement one of the options referred to in the second indent of point (ii) to the whole testing scheme for all flocks. However, sampling of breeding flocks laying hatching eggs intended for the trade within the Union must take place on the holding.
(iv) By way of derogation from the second indent of point (ii), if the Union target has been achieved for at least two consecutive calendar years in the whole Member State, sampling at the holding may be extended to take place every four weeks, at the discretion of the competent authority. However, the competent authority may decide to keep or revert to a three-week testing interval in the case of detection of the presence of the relevant
Salmonella
serotypes in a breeding flock on the holding and/or in any other case deemed appropriate by the competent authority.
(b) The sampling by the competent authority shall at least provide for:
(i) sampling of flocks of breeding turkeys:
— once a year, all flocks with at least 250 adult breeding turkeys between 30 and 45 weeks of age and all holdings with elite, great grand parents and grand parent breeding turkeys; the competent authority may decide that this sampling may also take place at the hatchery; and
— all flocks on holdings in case of detection of
Salmonella
Enteritidis or
Salmonella
Typhimurium from samples taken at the hatchery by food business operators or within the frame of official controls, to investigate the origin of infection;
(ii) sampling of flocks of fattening turkeys shall be done once a year, at least in one flock on 10 % of the holdings with at least 500 fattening turkeys;
(iii) sampling may be done on a risk basis and additionally each time the competent authority considers it necessary;
(iv) a sampling carried out by the competent authority may replace the sampling by the food business operator as referred to in point (a).
2.2.
Sampling protocol
2.2.1.
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