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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.
How food shops, manufacturers, and distributors must dispose of or handle former foodstuffs or food waste.
You should use this licence if you need to remove the meat mark applied to certain poultry meat.
What you need standard operating procedures for, the role of animal welfare officers, livestock unit limits and record keeping in slaughterhouses.
You must batch and label the beef and veal you sell or supply according to specific rules, which vary from product to product.
Rules of shackle line operations, waterbath and gas stunners, and facilities for slaughtering poultry, rabbits and hares in abattoirs.
Resources for reducing the risk of infection from handling raw pet foods.
Guidance on the main diseases that affect cattle, disease prevention and legal controls in place to protect cattle health.
Competent authorities of exporting countries should use the relevant model health certificate as a template to create a version exporters can apply for to export other meat to Great Britain, the Channel Islands or Isle of Man.
Find out what information you need to show on products made of or containing meat that you sell to the public.
Check the tariff classification for dried buffalo ears and dried beef meat scraped off from the throat, for use as animal feed.
What happens if an inspector finds you are breaking regulations on compulsory beef labelling.
Competent authorities of exporting countries should use the relevant model health certificate as a template to create a version exporters can apply for to export ratite meat to Great Britain, the Channel Islands or Isle of Man.
Check the tariff classification for bones with some meat, fat and tendons (so called soup bones).
How to get approval for operating plants handling or processing meat in England and Wales.
Competent authorities of exporting countries should use the relevant model health certificate as a template to create a version exporters can apply for to export ovine meat to Great Britain, the Channel Islands or Isle of Man.
Competent authorities of exporting countries should use the relevant model health certificate as a template to create a version exporters can apply for to export porcine meat to Great Britain, the Channel Islands or Isle of Man.
Competent authorities of exporting countries should use the relevant model health certificate as a template to create a version exporters can apply for to export bovine meat to Great Britain, the Channel Islands or Isle of Man.
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