69It follows from the foregoing that, in order to achieve a high level of protection of public health, the EU legislature has laid down minimum control standards for poultry meat, namely the external examination of carcasses and the internal examination of a sample of carcasses, while granting the competent authority broad discretion in order to be able to carry out further controls, such as analyses, if the competent authority considers it necessary.
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