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Special provisions on the cleansing and disinfection of infected holdings: preliminary cleansing and disinfection: during the killing of the animals, all necessary measures must be taken to avoid or minimise the spread of African swine fever virus. Those measures include, inter alia, the installation of temporary disinfection equipment, supply of protective clothing, showers, decontamination of used equipment, instruments and facilities and the interruption of power supply to the ventilation, carcases of killed animals must be sprayed with disinfectant, if the carcases have to be removed from the holding for processing, covered and leak proof containers must be used, as soon as the carcases of the pigs have been removed for processing, those parts of the holding in which the animals were housed and any parts of other buildings, yards etc., contaminated during killing, or post-mortem examination must be sprayed with disinfectants approved in accordance with Article 12, any tissue or blood spilled during slaughter or post-mortem or gross contamination of buildings, yards, utensils etc. must be carefully collected and processed with the carcases, the disinfectant must remain on the surface for at least 24 hours; final cleansing and disinfection: manure and used bedding must be removed and treated as provided in point 3(a), grease and dirt must be removed from all surfaces by the application of a degreasing agent and the surfaces washed with water, after washing with cold water, further spraying with disinfectant must be applied, after seven days the premises must be treated with a degreasing agent, rinsed with water, sprayed with disinfectant and rinsed again with water.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-09 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.