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What you need standard operating procedures for, the role of animal welfare officers, livestock unit limits and record keeping in slaughterhouses.
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.
How to comply with your environmental permit: additional technical guidance for red meat processors.
Apply online to export fresh or frozen pork or pig meat to the United Arab Emirates.
Apply online to export fresh or frozen beef, pork or lamb, or products containing these meats, to the EU for onward export to a country outside the EU.
Apply online to export fresh or frozen pork and pig products to Oman.
Marketing standards for veal and beef importers, exporters, producers, manufacturers, retailers and distributors.
Find out what information you need to show on products made of or containing meat that you sell to the public.
You must batch and label the beef and veal you sell or supply according to specific rules, which vary from product to product.
You must label beef, veal, mince and trimmings according to compulsory rules; extra information must meet food labelling legislation.
Labelling rules for businesses in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and retailers in Northern Ireland, for certain agri-food products moved under the Northern Ireland Retail Movement Scheme.
What you need to do to export or move food, drink and agricultural products.
The Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition recommendations on iron and health, and consumption of red and processed meat
This study interviewed 64 operators about experiences with foodborne diseases and explanations and expectations around meat safety
Requirement to analyse samples from food producing animals for residues of veterinary medicines and prohibited substances.
Through a social scientific lens, this paper considers the risk perceptions of 2 key groups in a northern Tanzanian context
Knowledge, pragmatism and trust
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