{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-543/article-8",
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  "legislation": "eur/2008/543",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 543/2008 of 16 June 2008 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 as regards the marketing standards for poultrymeat",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-543",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. Decisions arising from failure to comply with Articles 1, 3 and 7 may only be taken for the whole of the batch which has been checked in accordance with the provisions of this Article.\n2. A sample consisting of the following numbers of individual products as defined in Article 1 shall be drawn at random from each batch to be inspected in slaughterhouses, cutting plants, wholesale and retail warehouses or at any other stage of marketing, including during transport or, in the case of imports from third countries, at the time of customs clearance:\nTolerance within each species, not from one species to another.\nBatch size\nSample size\nTolerable number of defective units\nTotal\nFor points (1) and (3) of Article 1, and Article 7(1)\n1\n2\n3\n4\n100 to 500\n30\n5\n2\n501 to 3 200\n50\n7\n3\n> 3 200\n80\n10\n4\n3. In the checking of a batch of class A poultrymeat, the total tolerable number of defective units referred to in column 3 of the table in paragraph 2 is allowed. These defective units may also comprise, in the case of breast fillet, fillets with up to 2 % in weight of cartilage (flexible tip of sternum).\nHowever, the number of defective units not complying with the provisions of points (1) and (3) of Article 1, nor Article 7(1), shall not exceed the figures shown in column 4 of the table in paragraph 2.\nAs regards point (3) of Article 1, no defective unit shall be considered tolerable unless it be of a weight of at least 240 g in the case of duck livers and of at least 385 g in the case of goose livers.\n4. In the checking of a batch of class B poultrymeat, the tolerable number of defective units shall be doubled.\n5. Where the checked batch does not comply, the supervising agency shall prohibit its marketing or, if the batch comes from a third country, its import, unless and until proof is forthcoming that it has been made to comply with Articles 1 and 7.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Tolerance within each species, not from one species to another."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2008/543/article/8",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}