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Rules for feeding, watering, prioritising, holding animals for slaughter, and the design and layout of a slaughterhouse.
Rules of shackle line operations, waterbath and gas stunners, and facilities for slaughtering poultry, rabbits and hares in abattoirs.
Rules on restraining methods, stunning pens, captive bolt, gas and electrical stunning equipment, bleeding animals and shackling and hoisting animals.
How to legally carry out slaughter without stunning in accordance with religious rites, including how to restrain and bleed the animal.
Guidance on the main diseases that affect cattle, disease prevention and legal controls in place to protect cattle health.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for low input grassland.
You must batch and label the beef and veal you sell or supply according to specific rules, which vary from product to product.
Find out what information you need to show on products made of or containing meat that you sell to the public.
How to set up a compost or biogas site, UK and EU standards explained, and alternative treatment methods for animal by-products (ABPs).
How food shops, manufacturers, and distributors must dispose of or handle former foodstuffs or food waste.
How to legally kill your own poultry, cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, rabbits and hares to eat at home.
Legal standards for labelling and composition of food products such as bottled water, milk and meat.
Marketing standards for poultry meat producers, manufacturers, retailers and distributors.
What sites are collection centres, the animal by-products (ABPs) you can treat at one, and how you must treat them.
Inspectors will make unannounced visits to check that you’re complying with the rules for compulsory beef and veal labelling.
What happens if an inspector finds you are breaking regulations on compulsory beef labelling.
How to use and supply animal by-products (ABPs) as farm animal feed or in feed, and how to get your site registered and approved.
Resources for reducing the risk of infection from handling raw pet foods.
Diseases and health problems in sheep and goats, including foot and mouth disease (FMD), scrapie and lead poisoning
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