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OFFICIAL VETERINARIAN TASKS

Interpretation of test results conducted to check quality of cleaning and disinfection in slaugh-

terhouses and meat cutting plant

Instruction of Główny Lekarz Weterynarii

Nr GIWhig.500/3/05 of 2

ed

May 2005

on procedures of official veterinarians on supervisions accomplishing settlements of Commission Decision 2001/471/EC

In the cases of

unsatisfactory results

head master should initiate correction procedures by verification of:

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stand procedures and instructions in scope of cleaning and disinfection program,

-

usage of cleaning and disinfection agents,

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trainings schedules and programs,

-

GMP stand procedures and instructions

-

rules of owner’s supervision

AVII. Results interpretation and furthermore dealing

During supervision of results interpretation official veterinarian pays special attention on:

- tests results should be classified according microbiology criterions with the same order as sampling,
- unsatisfactory results triggers checking of verification criterions from the beginning (to determine status of control

processes)

- result in the range of margin or unsatisfactory has to initiate verification and control of process
- look for the reason of unexpected event and prevent next one
- result should be clarified by head master (or HACCP team) in a form of consultation with official veterinarian

The effect of consultations should be revealing reasons of unsatisfactory test results e.g.:

- wrong GMP procedures,
- lack of improper training
- usage of improper cleaning and disinfectant agents
- improper work of ventilation system
- lack or inadequate owner’s supervision

Official veterinarian pays special attention on:

- post slaughter processes

(failure in manual works)

- technical and sanitary conditions of machines and tools

(location places with access difficulties for cleaning and

disinfection)

-

introduce changes

to GMP (procedures and/or stand instructions)

-

conduct trainings for staff

considering revealed problem

-

increase frequency of verification

cleaning and disinfection actions

Resampling

(after revealing the reason of event) After the three following unsatisfactory results PLW make decision

what to do next including stop production

I N S T R U C T I O N

of Główny Lekarz Weterynarii

Nr GIWhig-500-7/07

of 4th of April 2007

on dealing rules of accomplishing supervision of test conducted by business operators producing

food of animal origin in scope of its safety and production processes hygiene

according to

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1441/2007

of 5 December 2007

amending Regulation (EC) No 2073/2005 on microbiological criteria for foodstuffs

II. Instruction describes

1)

method of preparing sampling plan to determine compliance with food safety criteria

2)

method of establishing sampling frequency to determine compliance with production hygiene criteria in
slaughterhouses, plant involved in production of ground meat, raw meat and mechanically deboned meat;

3)

proceedings with enforcing decision of Regulation 2073/2005;

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III.

Scope:

Proceedings of official veterinarians in supervision (control) on business operators of food of animal origin to establish
food safety

IV. Aim
The aim of instruction is standardization of proceedings of sampling to provide control and to enforce hygiene decisions
of Veterinary Inspection

1). PLW regarding risk analysis controls:

a)

if all produced food are included into plan of tests

b)

if all products covered by plan comply growth of Listeria monocytogenes

c)

if suggested tests number enables proper safety determination

2. Sampling for Salmonella presence to determine food safety such products as: ground meat, and raw meat products: 5
samples once a week could be reduced:

1)

1

st

time if during 3 following 10 days results were satisfactory (…)

2)

2

ed

time according national or regional plan if Salmonella occurrence is low

2. Sampling to determine hygiene level: 5 samples once a week could be reduced (…)

Annex no 3.

„Slaughter hygiene, ground meat, raw meat products, mechanically deboned meat – TVC (

total viable

counts

), Enterobacteriaceae, E. coli”

Presents method to establish basic

frequency sampling depending on results.

ground meat,
raw meat products,
mechanically deboned meat

Annex no 4. Slaughter hygiene criterions – Salmonella

Presents method to establish basic

frequency sampling depending on results.

hygiene of slaughter processes of:

- slaughter animals
- chicken broilers
- turkey broilers

A.

Accomplishment plan verification

1. Accomplishment plan verification is provided by PLW 2 time a year by analysis of plant documentation, independent
sampling and comparing results with those obtained from food business operator.
2. PLW during control checks if:

1) food business operator realizes tests plan,;
2) food business operator stores results confirming safety of production:
3) food business operator protects danger food against entering market in case of negative results;
4) predicted number of samples ensure proper determination of food safety;
5) food business operator realizes tendency analysis;
6) food business operator undergoes proper actions in a case of unsatisfactory tests results;
7) food business operator marks food products for necessity of thermal treatment before consumption;

In any inconformity with plan PLW advices food business operator to correct it. (Notification, conditions, term)

Annex no. 2 „Safety of ground meat, raw meat products – Salmonella”
Annex no 3 – „Slaughter hygiene, ground meat, raw meat products, mechanicaly deboned meat– TCC (total
viable counts), Enterobacteriaceae, E. coli”
Annex no 4. Slaughter hygiene criterions – Salmonella
Annex no 5. Establishing basic frequency for food safety tests for small plants which produce ground meat and
raw meat products
Annex no 6. Establishing basic frequency for food safety tests for small slaughterhouses (horses, cattle, sheep,
goats, pigs)
Annex no 7 Establishing basic frequency for hygiene production tests for small poultry slaughterhouses

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Annex no 8 Establishing basic frequency for hygiene production tests for small plans which produce ground
meat and raw meat products

Recounting unit – ru

Cu

Item

1

Cattle or horse over 3 months

0,5

Cattle or horse below 3 months

0,2

Pig over 100 kg

0,15

Pig in range form 15 to 100

0,05

Piglet below 15 kg

0,10

Sheep or goat over 15 kg

0,05

Sheep or goat below 15 kg

Annex no 9 Frequency sampling comparison for different food business operators

OIE - Office International des Epizooties
WOAH - World Organisation for Animal Health
The OIE code LIST DISEASES

Report (in form of a table)

Disease name
Animal species
Latin name
Evidence in ... year
Incidents count
Method of diagnose

Clinical, pathological, serological, identified pathogen

OIE list disease

African Horse Sickness
African Swine Fever
Anaplasmosis
Anthrax
Aujeszky´s Disease
Avian Chlamydiosis
Avian Cholera
Avian Infectious Bronchitis
Avian Influenza HPAI
Avian Influenza LPAI
Avian Tuberculosis
Bluetongue

Bovine Herpesvirus (IBR)
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)
Bovine Tuberculosis
Brucella abortus
Brucella melitensis
Brucella sp.
Brucella suis
Caprine Arthritis/Encephalitis (CAE)
Classical Swine Fever
Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia
Duck Hepatitis
Duck Plague (DVE)
Echinococcus granulosus
Echinococcus multilocularis
Equine Herpesvirus
Foot and Mouth Disease
Leishmaniasis
Leptospirosis
Lumpy Skin Disease
Maedi/Visna
Malignant Catharral Fever
Myxomatosis
Newcastle Disease
Paratuberculosis
Peste des Petits Ruminants
Q-fever
Rabbit Haemorrhagic Disease (RHD)
Rabies
Rift Valley Fever
Rinderpest
Scrapie
Sheep/Goat Pox
Swine Vesicular Disease
Trichinellosis
Tuberculosis Human
Tularemia
Vesicular stomatitis

Game animals diseases

Arboviruses
Avian Malaria
Avian Pox
Avian Vacuolar Myelinopathy
Babesiosis
Bat Lyssaviruses
Baylisascaris spp.
Besnoitiosis
Botulism
Calicivirus Marine Mammals
Circoviruses
Contagious Ecthyma
Ebola Virus Hemorrhagic Fever (EVHF)
Elephant Herpesvirus
Epizootic Haemorrhagic Disease (EHD)
European Brown Hare Syndrome (EBHS)
Feline Leukaemia (FLV)
Feline Panleucopenia
Hantaviruses
Histomoniasis
Immunodeficiency viruses (Feline, Simian)
Inclusion Body Hepatitis
Large Liver Flukes
Listeriosis
Louping ill
Lyme borreliosis
Marburg virus
Meningeal worms of cervids
Paramyxoviruses
Paramyxoviruses (Bat, Canine, Cetacean, Phocine)
Pasteurellosis
Pestiviruses
Pseudotubeculosis
Psoroptic Mange
Salmonellosis
Sarcoptic Mange
Sylvatic Plague
Tick Borne Encephalitis
Toxoplasmosis
Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSE, CWD)
Trichomoniasis
Tyzzer´s Disease
West Nile Virus

Reptiles
Fibropapillomatosis in sea turtles
Inclusion Body Disease
Papillomatosis in crocodiles
Trichinellosis

Amphibians
Chytridiomycosis
Iridovirus diseases

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OIE code LIST A DISEASES

List A

Transmissible diseases which have the potential for very serious and rapid spread, irrespective of national bor-
ders, which are of serious socio-economic or public health consequence and which are of major importance in
the international trade of animals and animal products.

List B

Transmissible diseases which are considered to be of socio-economic and/or public health importance within
countries and which are significant in the international trade of animals and animal products.

LIST A DISEASES

A010

- Foot and mouth disease

A020

- Vesicular stomatitis

A030

- Swine vesicular disease

A040

- Rinderpest

A050

- Peste des petits ruminants

A060

- Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia

A070

- Lumpy skin disease

A080

- Rift Valley fever

A090

- Bluetongue

A100

- Sheep pox and goat pox

A110

- African horse sickness

A120

- African swine fever

A130

- Classical swine fever

A150

- Highly pathogenic avian influenza

A160

- Newcastle disease

LIST B DISEASES

Multiple species
B051 - Anthrax
B052 - Aujeszky's disease
B053 - Echinococcosis/hydatidosis
B055 - Heartwater
B056 - Leptospirosis
B057 - Q fever
B058 - Rabies
B059 - Paratuberculosis
B060 - New world screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax)
B061 - Old world screwworm (Chrysomya bezziana)
B062 - Trichinellosis
Cattle
B101 - Bovine anaplasmosis
B102 - Bovine babesiosis
B103 - Bovine brucellosis
B104 - Bovine genital campylobacteriosis
B105 - Bovine tuberculosis
B106 - Bovine cysticercosis
B107 - Dermatophilosis
B108 - Enzootic bovine leukosis
B109 - Haemorrhagic septicaemia
B110 - Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis/infectious pustular
vulvovaginitis
B111 - Theileriosis
B112 - Trichomonosis
B113 - Trypanosomosis (tsetse-transmitted)
B114 - Malignant catarrhal fever
B115 - Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Sheep and goats
B151 - Ovine epididymitis (Brucella ovis)
B152 - Caprine and ovine brucellosis (excluding B. ovis)
B153 - Caprine arthritis/encephalitis
B154 - Contagious agalactia
B155 - Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia
B156 - Enzootic abortion of ewes (ovine chlamydiosis)
B157 - Ovine pulmonary adenomatosis
B158 - Nairobi sheep disease
B159 - Salmonellosis (S. abortusovis)
B160 - Scrapie
B161 - Maedi-visna
Equidae
B201 - Contagious equine metritis
B202 - Dourine
B203 - Epizootic lymphangitis

B204 - Equine encephalomyelitis (Eastern and Western)
B205 - Equine infectious anaemia
B206 - Equine influenza
B207 - Equine piroplasmosis
B208 - Equine rhinopneumonitis
B209 - Glanders
B210 - Horse pox
B211 - Equine viral arteritis
B212 - Japanese encephalitis
B213 - Horse mange
B215 - Surra (Trypanosoma evansi)
B216 - Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis
Swine
B251 - Atrophic rhinitis of swine
B252 - Porcine cysticercosis
B253 - Porcine brucellosis
B254 - Transmissible gastroenteritis
B256 - Enterovirus encephalomyelitis
B257 - Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome
Birds
B301 - Avian infectious bronchitis
B302 - Avian infectious laryngotracheitis
B303 - Avian tuberculosis
B304 - Duck virus hepatitis
B305 - Duck virus enteritis
B306 - Fowl cholera
B307 - Fowl pox
B308 - Fowl typhoid
B309 - Infectious bursal disease (Gumboro disease)
B310 - Marek's disease
B311 - Avian mycoplasmosis (M. gallisepticum)
B312 - Avian chlamydiosis
B313 - Pullorum disease
Lagomorphs
B351 - Myxomatosis
B352 - Tularemia
B353 - Rabbit haemorrhagic disease
Fish
B401 - Viral haemorrhagic septicaemia
B404 - Spring viraemia of carp
B405 - Infectious haematopoietic necrosis
B413 - Epizootic haematopoietic necrosis
B415 - Oncorhynchus masou virus disease
Molluscs
B431 - Bonamiosis (Bonamia exitiosus, B. ostreae, Mikrocytos rough-
leyi)

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B432 - MSX disease (Haplosporidium nelsoni)
B433 - Perkinsosis (Perkinsus marinus, P. olseni/atlanticus)
B434 - Marteiliosis (Marteilia refringens, M. sydneyi)
B436 - Mikrocytosis (Mikrocytos mackini)

Crustaceans
B445 - Taura syndrome
B446 - White spot disease
B447 - Yellowhead disease
Bees
B451 - Acariosis of bees
B452 - American foulbrood
B453 - European foulbrood
B454 - Nosemosis of bees
B455 - Varroosis
Other
B501 - Leishmaniosis

LIST C DISEASES
C611 - Listeriosis
C612 - Toxoplasmosis
C613 - Melioidosis
C614 - Blackleg
C615 - Botulism
C616 - Other clostridial infections
C617 - Other pasteurelloses
C618 - Actinomycosis
C619 - Intestinal Salmonella infections

C620 - Coccidiosis
C621 - Distomatosis (liver fluke)
C622 - Filariosis
C652 - Mucosal disease/Bovine virus diarrhoea
C653 - Vibrionic dysentery
C654 - Warble infestation
C701 - Contagious pustular dermatitis
C702 - Foot-rot
C703 - Contagious ophthalmia
C704 - Enterotoxaemia
C705 - Caseous lymphadenitis
C706 - Sheep mange
C751 - Equine coital exanthema
C752 - Ulcerative lymphangitis
C753 - Strangles
C754 - Salmonellosis (S. abortusequi)
C801 - Swine erysipelas
C851 - Infectious coryza
C853 - Avian encephalomyelitis
C854 - Avian spirochaetosis
C855 - Avian salmonellosis (excluding fowl typhoid and pullorum
disease)
C856 - Avian leukosis

ZOONOSES (HUMAN CASES)
E001 - Brucellosis

E002 - Salmonellosis

Additional sources of information:

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kontroli higieny procesów produkcji

http://www.wetgiw.gov.pl/index.php?action=art&a_id=2645

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nadzorze realizacji zapisów Decyzji Komisji z dnia 8 czerwca 2001 r. 2001/471/WE

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