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Stunning animals prior to slaughtering
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Stunning animals prior to slaughtering
Broilers, hens, and turkeys must be stunned before blood draining begins, and birds should remain unconscious and insensate until their death.Verification
Tender's declaration of compliance (yes/no).Why and how to use the criteria?
The measures needed to stun livestock effectively are set out in Finland’s Animal Welfare Decree (396/1996) and EU Council Regulation 1099/2009. From an animal welfare perspective, the purpose of stunning is to make the animal insensate prior to blood draining and related actions. Animals should subsequently remain unconscious and insensate until they die, from stunning through to the end of blood draining. Using correct and proper stunning methods also improves workplace safety for slaughterhouse staff, facilitates jabbing to kill the animal, enhances blood drainage, and improves the quality of the carcass by preventing convulsions, bruising, blood spots, clotting and bone fractures.Criterion information
Created
22.1.2024
ID
29
Sustainability information
Animal welfare and health
Publisher
Motiva
Language versions
FI, SV, EN
Version
1