Paragraph 3

Subject to paragraph 5 below, milk-based products shall meet the standards referred to in the tables below upon removal from the processing establishment—

TABLE A

Product	Type of micro-organism	Standard (m1,g)
(i) Cheese, other than hard cheese	Listeria monocytogenes	Absence in 25g where n = 5, c = 0
(ii) Milk-based products, other than cheese covered by (i) above	Listeria monocytogenes	Absence in 1g
(iii) Milk powder	Salmonella spp	Absence in 25g where n = 10, c = 0
(iv) Milk-based products, other than milk powder	Salmonella spp	Absence in 25g where n = 5, c = 0

The sample of 25g referred to in paragraph (i) of table A above shall consist of 5 specimens of 5g taken from different parts of the same product.

TABLE B

Product	Type of micro-organism	Standard (m1,g)
(i) Cheese made from raw milk or from thermised milk	Staphylococcus aureus	n = 5, c = 2, m = 1,000, M = 10,000
(i) Cheese made from raw milk or from thermised milk	Escherichia coli	n = 5, c = 2, m = 10,000, M = 100,000
(ii) Soft cheese made from heat-treated milk	Staphylococcus aureus	} n = 5, c = 2, m = 100, M = 1,000
(ii) Soft cheese made from heat-treated milk	Escherichia coli	} n = 5, c = 2, m = 100, M = 1,000
(iii) Fresh cheese	Staphylococcus aureus	} n = 5, c = 2, m = 10, M = 100
Powdered milk	Staphylococcus aureus
Frozen milk-based products including ice-cream	Staphylococcus aureus