Division 3
United Kingdom
In case of pigs to be moved to a slaughterhouse, to a processing plant or to other places to be then killed or slaughtered, in addition to the investigations to be carried out in accordance with point 1, a clinical examination of pigs must be carried out in each subunit in which the pigs to be moved are kept. In case of pigs older than three to four months, this examination must include taking the temperature of a proportion of pigs.
The minimum number of the pigs to be checked must allow for the detection of fever if it occurs at a prevalence of 20 % with 95 % confidence in the subunits in question.
Notes on Chapter IV
Textual amendments
- F1
Words in Annex Ch. 4 Section A para. 1 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Exotic Disease (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1410), regs. 1, 8(5); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)