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Meat production: ante-mortem and post-mortem inspection
Service Description
If you commercially slaughter animals whose meat is intended for human consumption, you must have the animals officially inspected before and after slaughter. This applies to:
- Cattle,
- pigs,
- sheep,
- goats,
- horses and other ungulates,
- poultry,
- lagomorphs and
- farmed game.
The inspection requirement also applies to domestic slaughter.
Who should I contact?
Contact the veterinary and food control office of the county or city in whose jurisdiction the slaughter is to take place.
What are the fees?
The fee depends on the type of animal, the number of animals to be examined and the effort involved. It amounts to between 5.00 and 53.00 euros for individual animal slaughterings (as of 18.11.2009).
What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?
Domestic slaughtering for exclusively own, private domestic needs must be announced to the Veterinary and Food Control Office in due time (it should be at least 2 working days) before the planned slaughtering. The announcement of the responsible official veterinarians or specialized assistants is made by the district offices or municipal administrations.
In the case of emergency slaughtering, a veterinarian must be called in immediately to examine the injured animal before it is slaughtered. The Veterinary and Food Control Office must then be involved immediately.
Legal basis
- Food and Feed Code - LFGB
- Regulation (EC) No. 852/2004 on food hygiene
- Regulation (EC) No. 853/2004 laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin.
- Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 laying down specific rules for the organisation of official controls on products of animal origin intended for human consumption.
- Animal Food Hygiene Regulation - Animal LMHV
- Thuringian administrative cost regulations for the business area of the Ministry of Social Affairs, Family and Health
- Animal Protection Slaughter Ordinance (TierSchlV)
What else should I know?
Commercial slaughtering may (as of 1.1.2010) only be carried out in establishments officially approved for this purpose.
In the case of poultry and lagomorphs, there are exceptions for self-slaughtering production companies based on the number of animals slaughtered per year, which must be obtained from the competent authority.
Author
The text was automatically translated based on the German content per DeepL.
Technically approved by
Thuringian Ministry for Social Affairs, Family and Health
Professionally released on
07.06.2011
Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6Plus)
Competent Authority
Veterinär- und Lebensmittelüberwachungsamt
Address
99310 Arnstadt, Stadt