In the late 1990s, a committee of industrials and quality experts developed a trial method for checking controls on the critical recontamination point as represented by delivery trucks during the transportation of heat-treated products (HTP).
At a time both when the level of prevention relating to biosafety in the animal nutrition sector clearly needs to be increased to counter the arrival of viruses, and when public authorities are demanding stronger measures to prevent the spread of Salmonella, it is useful to remember the proposal issued in BS N° 38.
The method is given here for information only; its use is not mandatory. If, however, this method is not used, the committee strongly recommends that each company should establish its own system in order to strengthen control over this potential route for transmission.
Each company is responsible for setting up an effective inspection method and the related procedures (who does what, when and how). While the committee proposes a method, it cannot set out the detailed implementation procedures