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MHS Manual for Official Controls

The MHS Manual for Official Controls provides details of the tasks, responsibilities and duties MHS staff and veterinary contractors undertake in approved establishments.

The latest revisions to the manual were implemented on 20 April 2009.

The work of the MHS includes:

• inspection
• verification and audit
• decision making and action to be taken following official controls
• sampling procedures
• monitoring and surveillance programmes

Volume 1 contains the detail of the Official Controls and is provided as a series of pdf documents. It has been split into chapters and sub-chapters to limit the size of each file and make them quicker to download.

Volume 2 contains the names and reference numbers of the individual regulations. Details of statutory instruments may be found on the OPSI website. The Eur-Lex website contains details of European legislation. Links to both these websites are provided at the bottom off this page.

The version of the Manual for Official Controls contained below is not to be considered the official version for MHS enforcement purposes and may contain revoked instructions. Stakeholders may wish to contact the MHS Editorial Team to confirm the status of this document.

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Download pdf  (pdf 258KB) MHS Manual Chapter 2.1: Food Chain Information (FCI) and Collection and Communication of Inspection Results (CCIR)

Download pdf  (pdf 193KB) MHS Manual Chapter 2.2: Ante Mortem Inspection

Download pdf  (pdf 1MB) MHS Manual Chapter 2.3: Animal Welfare

Download pdf  (pdf 620KB) MHS Manual Chapter 2.4: Post-Mortem Inspection

Download pdf  (pdf 743KB) MHS Manual Chapter 2.5: Animal Identification

Download pdf  (pdf 1MB) MHS Manual Chapter 2.6: TSE testing

Download pdf  (pdf 1MB) MHS Manual Chapter 2.7: Specified Risk Material

Download pdf  (pdf 95KB) MHS Manual Chapter 2.8: Animal By-Products

Download pdf  (pdf 80KB) MHS Manual Chapter 3: Imported and Exported Meat and Animals

Download pdf  (pdf 116KB) MHS Manual Chapter 4: Audit and HACCP based procedures

Download pdf  (pdf 267KB) MHS Manual Chapter 5: Residues

Download pdf  (pdf 1MB) MHS Manual Chapter 6: Notifiable Diseases

Download pdf  (pdf 2MB) MHS Manual Chapter 7: Enforcement

Download pdf  (pdf 544KB) MHS Manual Chapter 8: Time Coding

Download pdf  (pdf 410KB) MHS Manual Chapter 9: Form Retention Schedule and Revision Numbers

Download pdf  (pdf 60KB) MHS Manual Glossary of Abbreviations and Acronyms

Download pdf  (pdf 20KB) MHS Manual Volume 2 : Regulations

Download pdf  (pdf 36KB)

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