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Such action shall include, where appropriate, the following measures: the imposition of sanitation procedures or any other action deemed necessary to ensure the safety of feed or food or compliance with feed or food law, animal health or animal welfare rules; the restriction or prohibition of the placing on the market, import or export of feed, food or animals; monitoring and, if necessary, ordering the recall, withdrawal and/or destruction of feed or food; the authorisation to use feed or food for purposes other than those for which they were originally intended; the suspension of operation or closure of all or part of the business concerned for an appropriate period of time; the suspension or withdrawal of the establishment's approval; the measures referred to in Article 19 on consignments from third countries; any other measure the competent authority deems appropriate.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-01 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.