Annex 2 - Equipment List
List of FSS provided equipment:
- Mobile device (with built in camera) and case
The Agent is required to provide their own equipment, including sampling equipment from the list below, for the feed law function. Sampling equipment must not contaminate the feed being sampled and where re-used must be easy to clean.
List of sampling equipment:
- Flat-bottomed shovel with vertical sides, stainless steel or non-ferrous mechanical apparatus which, must be capable of taking samples right across the flow of the product.
- Sampling spear(s) appropriate for the depth of sampling and particle size of the material being sampled – stainless steel (large and small)
- Divider(s)/riffle(s) designed to divide the sample into approximately equal parts for the preparation of reduced samples
- Apparatus capable of taking samples right across the whole flow of feed in motion e.g. ‘cup on a pole’
- Baton/ruler for coning and quartering, where a divider is not suitable
- Sample bags – clear and black
- Sample containers with lids – different types including sterile for microbiological testing, dark containers for samples being tested for analytes subject to light degradation and leak-proof for liquid feed
- Labels
- Marker pens
- Uniquely numbered seals for samples
- Large plastic box for sampling equipment
- Cool box and ice packs
- Heavy duty car boot liners
- Rubber mat
- Large sheets of brown paper
- Stainless steel trowel
- Soft brush
- Hand brush and dustpan
- Weighing machine(s) of appropriate capacity and divisions
- Knife and scissors