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Rules for feeding, watering, prioritising, holding animals for slaughter, and the design and layout of a slaughterhouse.
Rules on restraining methods, stunning pens, captive bolt, gas and electrical stunning equipment, bleeding animals and shackling and hoisting animals.
Rules of shackle line operations, waterbath and gas stunners, and facilities for slaughtering poultry, rabbits and hares in abattoirs.
How to legally carry out slaughter without stunning in accordance with religious rites, including how to restrain and bleed the animal.
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Check the tariff classification for dried buffalo ears and dried beef meat scraped off from the throat, for use as animal feed.
Know which licence or certificate you must have to restrain, stun or kill animals which are not for human consumption, and how to carry out these operations.
Find out what information you need to show on products made of or containing meat that you sell to the public.
Apply online for an export health certificate (EHC) to export fresh meat, like lamb, mutton and goat, from Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) to the EU or move it to Northern Ireland.
Apply online for an export health certificate (EHC) to export meat products required to undergo a specific risk-mitigating treatment from Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) to the EU or move them to Northern Ireland.
Apply online for an export health certificate (EHC) to export fresh meat, such as beef, from Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) to the EU or move it to Northern Ireland.
The rules on bringing food or animal products into Great Britain from abroad: restrictions, types of food and the amount you can bring.
Apply online to export fresh or frozen pork or products containing pig meat to India.
A review of the validated data for the nitrogen factors of meat, poultry and fish from the first data published in 1919 to present day data.
Apply online for an export health certificate (EHC) to export preparations of meat such as pork, beef, lamb and chicken from Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) to the EU or move it to Northern Ireland.
You must batch and label the beef and veal you sell or supply according to specific rules, which vary from product to product.
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