Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 22 February 2024.#Micreos Food Safety BV v Eniaios Foreas Elenchou Trofimon (EFET).#Reference for a preliminary ruling – Food safety – Specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin – Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 – Article 3(2) – Substance intended to remove surface contamination from products of animal origin – Definition – Contamination by the pathogenic bacterium Listeria monocytogenes – Substance intended to prevent surface contamination from products of animal origin and applied outside of slaughterhouses during the final stages of the production process – Placing on the market – Prior approval by the European Commission.#Case C-745/22.