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 | Humane Handling and Slaughter Directive (PDF|108)
USDA. Food Safety and Inspection Service
This directive provides the informs inspection program personnel of the requirements, verification activities, and enforcement actions for ensuring that the handling and slaughter of livestock. |
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| Humane Slaughter Fact Sheet
USDA. Food Safety and Inspection Service.
Explains USDA's role in ensuring the humane slaughter of food animals in commercial plants. |
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| Humane Slaughter Act
Statutory Sections comprising the Humane Slaughter Act.
Included are Congress' statement that livestock must be slaughtered in a humane manner
to prevent needless suffering, research methods on humane methods of slaughter, the
nonapplicability of these statutes to religious or ritual slaughter, and the
investigation into the care of nonambulatory livestock. See
also
Humane Slaughter of Livestock regulations in the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 9,
Chapter 3, Part 313. |
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Last Modified: Sep 8, 2008 | |
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