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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-safety-live-bivalve-molluscs-and-other-shellfish-regulations-1992/schedule-9/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/3164",
  "legislation_title": "The Food Safety (Live Bivalve Molluscs and Other Shellfish) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-safety-live-bivalve-molluscs-and-other-shellfish-regulations-1992",
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  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
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  "text": "(1) Sampling plans for the purposes of paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Schedule shall in particular take account of:\n(a) likely variations in faecal contamination at each production and relaying area;\n(b) possible variations in production and relaying areas in the presence of plankton containing marine biotoxins;\n(c) possible contamination of the molluscs in the production and relaying area.\n(2) Sampling plans referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(b) above shall be carried out as follows—\n(a) in relation to monitoring, periodic sampling shall be organized to detect changes in the composition of the plankton containing toxins and the geographical distribution of the plankton,\n(b) where periodic sampling leads to a suspicion of accumulation of toxins in mollusc flesh, intensive sampling shall be carried out and molluscs from the relevant area shall not be placed on the market until new sampling has provided satisfactory toxicity test result;\n(c) where intensive sampling is to be carried out, it shall consist of—\n(i) monitoring plankton in the growing and fishing waters by increasing the number of sampling points and the number of samples, and\n(ii) the carrying out of toxicity tests using the molluscs from the affected area which are most susceptible to contamination.",
  "extent": null,
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      "affecting": "uksi/1994/2782",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Safety (Live Bivalve Molluscs and Other Shellfish) (Import Conditions and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1994"
    },
    {
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      "affecting_title": "The Food Safety (Live Bivalve Molluscs and Other Shellfish) (Import Conditions and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1994"
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      "affecting_title": "The Food Safety (Live Bivalve Molluscs and Other Shellfish) (Import Conditions and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1994"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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