Article 30 Cleaning and disinfection and other measures to prevent the spread of infection

United Kingdom

The competent authority shall order the operators of all infected establishments and those receiving animals from infected establishments the cleaning and disinfection or, where relevant, the safe disposal of:

(a)

all parts of the establishments that may have been contaminated after the removal of the confirmed and suspected cases and before repopulation;

(b)

any feed, materials, substances, husbandry related equipment, medicinal equipment and production related equipment that may have been contaminated;

(c)

any protective clothing or safety equipment used by operators and visitors;

(d)

all means of transport, containers and equipment after the transport of animals or products from infected establishments;

(e)

loading areas for animals after each use.

The competent authority shall approve the protocol for the cleaning and disinfection.

The competent authority shall supervise the cleaning and disinfection, or where relevant, the safe disposal and shall not restore or grant again disease-free status to the establishment until it considers that the cleaning and disinfection, or where relevant, the safe disposal, has been completed.

The competent authority may, based on a risk assessment, regard a pasture as contaminated and prohibit its use for kept animals of higher health status than that of the targeted animal population or, if epidemiologically relevant, additional animal populations, for a period of time sufficient to consider the risk of persistence of the disease agent to be negligible.