Salmonella: test your broiler flock chickens
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When and how to test for salmonella if you breed broiler chickens, and what happens if a flock tests positive. Testing is part of the salmonella national control programme (NCP).
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 10
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-17
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
When and how to test for salmonella if you breed broiler chickens, and what happens if a flock tests positive. Testing is part of the salmonella national control programme (NCP). Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- When you must test for salmonella
- Before you test for salmonella
- Register places where you have a hatchery or keep poultry
- Ask your vet or a NCP-approved laboratory for advice
- When to collect samples
- Test flocks before slaughter
- Avoid taking samples after giving antibiotics
- How to collect boot, dust and hand-held swab samples
- Prepare to take samples
- How to collect boot swab samples
- How to collect dust samples
- How to collect hand-held faecal swabs
- What to do with the samples
- Label the samples
- Send samples to a NCP-approved laboratory
- Official sampling at your premises
Source and licence
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
AttributionDepartment for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, ‘Salmonella: test your broiler flock chickens’ (updated 10 November 2025), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.017/09/2026