The existing Community legislation on food hygiene and control of zoonoses includes a number of provisions that seek to control and prevent the Salmonella contamination of foodstuffs. Targets for Salmonella spp. will be set progressively in different animal populations: breeding flocks of Gallus gallus, laying hens, broilers, turkeys and slaughter pigs. After each target is set, Member States will have to develop and submit national control programmes to the Commission for its approval.

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... g to the Regulation, it may be decided to establish rules concerning the use of specific control methods in the context of the control programmes. The Regulation lays down that before proposing such rules on specific control methods, the Commission shall consult the European Food Safety Authority. The use of vaccines against Salmonella spp. is an example of such potential specific control methods. The EFSA Journal (2004) 114 1-74, The use of vaccines for the control of Salmonella in poultry.