Guidance

Shellfish scheme: sample instruction sheets and video

This scheme provides external quality assessment (EQA) samples for laboratories that examine raw bivalve molluscs.

Documents

Shellfish scheme sample instruction sheet (English)

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Shellfish scheme sample instruction sheet (French)

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Shellfish scheme sample instruction sheet (German)

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Shellfish scheme sample instruction sheet (Italian)

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Shellfish scheme sample instruction sheet (Portuguese)

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Shellfish scheme sample instruction sheet (Spanish)

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Shellfish scheme: sample instruction sheets and video.

The shellfish scheme provides external quality assessment samples for laboratories that examine raw bivalve molluscs from harvesting sites in accordance with Regulation (EC) No. 854/2004 and from the production chain between harvest and consumption, in accordance with Regulation (EC) 2073/2005 and subsequent amendments.

The scheme is organised in collaboration with the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), Weymouth, UK. Articles 32 and 33 of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 882/2004 defines the roles of the European Union Reference Laboratory (EURL) and national reference laboratories (NRL). These roles include responsibility for organising comparative testing of methods.

Published 19 April 2014
Last updated 7 January 2015 + show all updates
  1. Updated Shellfish scheme: sample instruction sheet (French), sample instruction sheet (German), sample instruction sheet (Italian), sample instruction sheet (Portuguese) and sample instruction sheet (Spanish).

  2. Sample instruction video added.

  3. First published.