{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/zoonoses-monitoring-wales-regulations-2007/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/zoonoses-monitoring-wales-regulations-2007/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2007/2459",
  "legislation_title": "The Zoonoses (Monitoring) (Wales) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/zoonoses-monitoring-wales-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Examination of isolates",
  "text": "(1) A food business operator responsible for primary production who examines an isolate, or causes an examination of an isolate to be carried out, in order to detect the presence of any zoonosis or zoonotic agent must—\n(a) take all reasonable steps to ensure that the isolate is preserved for a period of at least two weeks from the date of the examination; and\n(b) keep the results of the examination for a period of 12 months from receipt and supply them to the Welsh Ministers immediately upon demand during that period.\n(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to any sample taken for the purposes of the Control of Salmonella in Poultry (Wales) Order 2008.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6(2) substituted (28.3.2019) by The Rural Affairs, Environment, Fisheries and Food (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) (Wales) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/463), regs. 1(3), 8"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2007/2459/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:00:23.377611+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."
}