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Division 1 Visual inspection shall be performed on a representative number of samples. The persons in charge of establishments on land and qualified persons on board factory vessels shall determine the scale and frequency of the inspections by reference to the type of fishery products, their geographical origin and their use. During production, visual inspection of eviscerated fish must be carried out by qualified persons on the abdominal cavity and livers and roes intended for human consumption. Depending on the system of gutting used, the visual inspection must be carried out:

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  1. (a)

    in the case of manual evisceration, in a continuous manner by the handler at the time of evisceration and washing;

  2. (b)

    in the case of mechanical evisceration, by sampling carried out on a representative number of samples being not less than 10 fish per batch.