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You must batch and label the beef and veal you sell or supply according to specific rules, which vary from product to product.
How to legally carry out slaughter without stunning in accordance with religious rites, including how to restrain and bleed the animal.
The licence or certificate you need to slaughter or kill animals, the operations covered and how to apply.
Rules on restraining methods, stunning pens, captive bolt, gas and electrical stunning equipment, bleeding animals and shackling and hoisting animals.
This release presents statistics on the slaughter of cattle, sheep and pigs, dressed carcase weights and meat production in the United Kingdom.
Rules of shackle line operations, waterbath and gas stunners, and facilities for slaughtering poultry, rabbits and hares in abattoirs.
The carnivores you can feed, when your site must be registered, authorised, or recognised, and the animal by-products you can use.
Check the VAT rules for food processing and abattoir services.
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