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Council Directive 80/217/EEC of 22 January 1980 introducing Community measures for the control of classical swine fever · European Union

The following guidelines, standards and minimum criteria are laid down for the diagnostic procedures. The designated national swine fever laboratories shall define the materials and methods for use in the diagnosis of swine fever. A. COLLECTION OF MATERIALS FOR DIAGNOSIS 1. For virus isolation and antigen detection, tonsil tissue is considered essential. Samples of kidney, spleen and ileum, together with maxillary and mesentric lymph nodes should also be collected. Each sample of the tissue should be placed in a separate plastic bag and labelled. The samples should be transported and stored in leak-proof containers. They should not be frozen but kept cool at refrigerator temperature and tested without delay.

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