Following are important considerations for designing and construction of slaughterhouse for ensuring the animal welfare during slaughter.
1) No animal shall be slaughtered in a slaughterhouse in sight of other animals.
2) No animal shall be administered any chemical, drug or hormone before slaughter except drug for its treatment for any specific disease or ailment.
3) The slaughter halls in a slaughterhouse shall provide separate sections of adequate dimensions sufficient for slaughter of individual animals to ensure that the animal to be slaughtered is not within the sight of other animals.
4) Every slaughterhouse as soon as possible shall provide a separate space for stunning of animals prior to slaughter, bleeding and dressing of the carcasses.
5) Knocking section in slaughterhouse may be so planned as to suit the animal and particularly the ritual slaughter; if any and such knocking section and dry landing area associated with it shall be so built that escape from this section can be easily carried out by an operator without allowing the animal to pass the escape barrier.
6) A curbed in bleeding area of adequate size as specified by the Central Government shall be provided in a slaughterhouse and it shall be so located that the blood could not be splashed on other animals being slaughtered or on the carcass being skinned.
7) The blood drain and collection in a slaughterhouse shall be immediate and proper.
8) A floor wash point shall be provided in a slaughterhouse for intermittent cleaning and a hand- wash basin and knife sterilizer shall also be provided for the sticker to sterilize knife and wash his hands periodically.
9) Dressing of carcasses in a slaughterhouse shall not be done on floor and adequate means and tools for dehiding or belting of the animals shall be provided in a slaughterhouse with means for immediate disposal of hides or skins.
10) Hides or skins shall be immediately transported from a slaughterhouse either in a closed wheelbarrow or by a chute provided with self-closing door and in no case such hides or skins shall be spread on slaughter floor for inspection
11) Floor wash point and adequate number of hand wash basins with sterlizer shall be provided in a dressing area of a slaughterhouse with means for immediate disposal of legs, horns, hooves and other parts of animals through spring load floor chutes or sidewall doors or closed wheelbarrows and in case wheelbarrows or trucks are used in a slaughterhouse, care shall be taken that no point wheelbarrow or truck has to ply under the dressing rails and a clear passage is provided for movement of the trucks.
12) Adequate space, and suitable and properly located facilities shall be provided sufficient for inspection of the viscera of the various types of animals slaughtered in a slaughterhouse and it shall have adequate facilities for hand washing, tool sterilisation and floor washing and contrivances for immediate separation and disposal of condemned material.
13) Adequate arrangements shall be made in a slaughterhouse by its owner for identification, inspection and correlation of carcass, viscera and head.
14) In a slaughterhouse, a curbed and separately drained area or an area of sufficient size, sloped 33 mm per metre to a floor drain, where the carcasses may be washed with a jet of water, shall be provided by the owner of such slaughterhouse.
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