Professional paper

Welfare of animals in the slaughterhouses-review of foreign legislative

Kristina Matković ; Zavod za animalnu higijenu, okoliš i etologiju, Veterinarski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Heinzelova 55, Zagreb
Srećko Matković

Abstract

In Croatia, a new Statute on animal welfare is in the course of preparing and it will elaborate in detail all areas and issues of slaughter of animals for human consumption and procedures that anticipate slaughter. This paper presents the regulations of the EU and OIE relative to the procedures of reception and accommodation of animals in slaughterhouses and methods of restraining, stunning and slaughter of animals through the prism of their welfare.

Keywords

animals for human consumption; welfare; restraining; stunning; slaughter

Hrčak ID:

22194

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/22194

Publication date:

15.5.2006.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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