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Slaughter: Carrying out - official ante-mortem inspection
If you are slaughtering animals whose meat is intended for human consumption, you must have the animals officially examined before and after slaughter. This concerns:
- Cattle
- Pigs
- Sheep
- Goats
- horses and other ungulates,
- Poultry
- does not apply directly to consumers or to local retail establishments for direct delivery to consumers of the meat of a maximum of 10,000 pieces per year of poultry slaughtered on its own farm,
- Hare-animals
- does not apply directly to consumers or to local retail establishments for direct distribution to consumers of the meat of not more than 10,000 pieces of hare slaughtered on its own farm per year;
- Farm game.
The obligation to carry out investigations also applies to domestic slaughter.
The responsibility lies with the counties, district-free towns and municipalities with public slaughterhouses.
Information on the food chain shall be provided.
Fees may apply. Please contact the appropriate body.
Slaughterings shall be notified to the competent authority in good time (at least 24 hours in advance).
Emergency slaughters shall be considered separately, in any case the competent authority shall be involved without delay.
Commercial slaughteringmays may only be carried out on establishments approved for this purpose.
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
Lower Saxony Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Consumer Protection and Regional Development
Source: Serviceportal Niedersachsen (Portalverbund des Bundes und der Länder)