{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2011-142/annex-X/chapter-I",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2011-142/annex-X/chapter-I.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2011/142",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EU) No 142/2011 of 25 February 2011 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down health rules as regards animal by-products and derived products not intended for human consumption and implementing Council Directive 97/78/EC as regards certain samples and items exempt from veterinary checks at the border under that Directive (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2011-142",
  "path": "annex/X/chapter/I",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "CHAPTER I",
  "heading": "GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR THE PROCESSING AND PLACING ON THE MARKET",
  "text": "Microbiological standards for derived products\nThe following microbiological standards shall apply to derived products:\nSamples of the final products taken during or on withdrawal from storage at the processing plant must comply with the following standards:\nSalmonella: absence in 25 g: n = 5, c = 0, m = 0, M = 0\nEnterobacteriaceae: n = 5, c = 2, m = 10, M = 300 in 1 g\nwhere:\nnnumber of samples to be tested;\nmthreshold value for the number of bacteria; the result is considered satisfactory if the number of bacteria in all samples does not exceed m;\nMmaximum value for the number of bacteria; the result is considered unsatisfactory if the number of bacteria in one or more samples is M or more; and\ncnumber of samples the bacterial count of which may be between m and M, the sample still being considered acceptable if the bacterial count of the other samples is m or less.\nHowever, the microbiological standards set out in this Chapter shall not apply to rendered fats and fish oil from the processing of animal by-products, when the processed animal protein, which is obtained during the same processing, is subject to sampling to ensure compliance with those standards.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2011/142/annex/X/chapter/I",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:50:18.901897+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}