Manual for Official Controls

Summary

The Manual for Official Controls (MOC) provides details of the tasks, responsibilities and duties of Food Standards Scotland (FSS) staff and veterinary contractors undertake in approved establishments.

The work of FSS includes:

• inspection
• verification and audit
• decision making and action to be taken following official controls
• sampling procedures
• monitoring and surveillance programmes

Volume 1 contains the detail of the Official Controls and is provided as a series of pdf documents. It has been split into chapters and sub-chapters to limit the size of each file and make them quicker to download.

Please note that the links to forms and annexes in these documents will not work. For more information on forms, contact operations@fss.scot.

Volume 2 contains the names and reference numbers and link to the individual regulations.

Action Notes

See below for a list of currently active Action Notes which are released between major updates of the MOC. 

• Action Note - Instructions
• Changes to establishment listings for China
• Chapter 1 - Approval
• Chapter 2.1 FCI and CCIR
• Chapter 2.2 Ante-Mortem Inspection
• Chapter 2.2 Ant-mortem inspection (14 May 2020)
• Chapter 2.2 Ante-mortem
• Chapter 2.2 Ante-Morton Inspection Procedures
• Chapter 2.3 Animal welfare incidents on OWS
• Chapter 2.3 Animal welfare
• Chapter 2.4 Post-mortem health and ID marking
• Chapter 2.5 Animal Identification
• Chapter 2.10 Inspections
• Chapter 3.6 Exports
• Chapter 4 Audit
• Chapter 4 Audit - verification of micro criteria
• Chapter 4 - Audit, HACCP and Verifying Operator’s Own Checks
• Chapter 5 Residues
• Chapter 5 Residues and 6 notifable dieases
• Chapter 6 Notifiable diseases - Aujeszky's
• Chapter 7 Enforcement
• Chapter 10 Operational training
• Chapter 10 Operational training - Novice Offical Veterinarians