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Paragraph 14 Food chain information and chickens dead on arrivalF1

England and Wales

(1)

For the purposes of Section III (food chain information) of Annex II to Regulation 853/2004, the daily mortality rate and cumulative daily mortality rate and the hybrid or breed of chickens from a flock with a stocking density in excess of 33 kilograms per m2 of usable area is treated as relevant food safety information.

(2)

A food business operator operating a slaughterhouse must—

(a)

under the supervision of the official veterinarian, record the number of chickens from such a flock that are dead on arrival at the slaughterhouse; and

(b)

provide that information on request to the official veterinarian.

(3)

In this paragraph—

  • “cumulative daily mortality rate” (“y gyfradd farwolaeth ddyddiol gronnus”) means the sum of daily mortality rates;

  • “daily mortality rate” (“y gyfradd farwolaeth ddyddiol”) means the number of chickens which have died in a house on the same day including those that have been culled either because of disease or because of other reasons, divided by the number of chickens present in the house on that day, multiplied by 100.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Sch. 5A inserted (10.11.2010) by The Welfare of Farmed Animals (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2713), regs. 1, 8, Sch.