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Part 3 ANIMAL HEALTH REQUIREMENTS FOR THE COLLECTION AND PROCESSING OF OOCYTES, OVARIES AND OTHER TISSUES FOR IN VITRO PRODUCTION OF EMBRYOS OF BOVINE, PORCINE, OVINE, CAPRINE AND EQUINE ANIMALS

United Kingdom

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In addition to the requirements set out in Part 2, the following additional requirements shall apply to the collection, processing and transport of oocytes, ovaries and other tissues for use in in vitro fertilisation and in vitro culture:

  1. 1..

    The ovaries and other tissues collected at a slaughterhouse, either from an individual donor animal or from a batch of donor animals, shall be collected in a slaughterhouse approved in accordance with Article 148 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625.

    Those potential donor animals must have undergone ante-mortem and post-mortem inspections carried out by a veterinarian at the slaughterhouse who must have certified them to be free of symptoms and signs of any of the category A, B, C and D diseases relevant for the bovine, porcine, ovine, caprine or equine animals.

    The slaughterhouse must be situated in an area where foot-and-mouth disease has not been reported within a 10-km radius for a period of at least the preceding 30 days before the date of collection of the ovaries and other tissues.

  2. 2..

    Ovaries shall not be brought into the laboratory of an embryo production team for processing until a post-mortem inspection of donor animals is completed with satisfactory results.

    If a disease referred to in point 1 is found in the individual donor animal, the batch of donor animals or in any animals slaughtered in that slaughterhouse on that day, all ovaries and other tissues from those donor animals shall be traced and discarded.

  3. 3..

    Equipment for the removal and transport of ovaries and other tissues shall be cleansed and either disinfected or sterilised before use, except for new single-use equipment, and exclusively used for those purposes.

Separate equipment shall be used to handle oocytes and embryos from different individual donor animals and from different batches of donor animals.