Division 5

If further clinical signs or lesions that may suggest ASF are detected in a suspected holding, but the competent authority deems that these findings are not sufficient to confirm an outbreak of ASF and that laboratory tests are therefore necessary, blood samples for laboratory tests must be taken from the suspected pigs and from other pigs in each subunit in which the suspected pigs are kept, in accordance with the following procedures:

1. (a)

   the minimum number of samples to be taken for serological tests must allow for the detection of 10 % seroprevalence with 95 % confidence in the subunit in question;

2. (b)

   the number of samples to be taken for virological tests will be in accordance with the instructions of the competent authority, which will take into account the range of tests that can be performed, the sensitivity of the laboratory tests that will be used and the epidemiological situation.