Slaughterhouses (Hygienic Practices) Regulations. Country/Territory Belize Document type Regulation Date 1970 (1985) Source FAO, FAOLEX Original source The Subsidiary Laws of Belize Revised Edition 2003, CAP. 291. Subject Food & nutrition Keyword Hygiene/sanitary procedures Meat Slaughtering Inspection Processing/handling Packaging/labelling Food quality control/food safety Geographical area Americas, Central America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Small Island Developing States Abstract These Regulations provide rules for hygienic slaughtering of animals, i.e. goat, swine, cattle or sheep. They prescribe norms for the construction of slaughterhouses (Part II), equipment (Part III), and hygienic practices in slaughtering animals (Part IV). Provisions of Part IV concern, inter alia: admission of animals and carcasses to a slaughterhouse, use of clean water, the slaughtering processes, protection of meat, destruction of condemned products, inspection marks, labelling of products, sampling, processing of meat into specified meat products and treatment of such products, etc. Full text English References - Legislation Implements Food and Drugs Act. Legislation | Belize | 1953 (1987) Keyword: Basic legislation, Food quality control/food safety, Fraud, Packaging/labelling, International trade, Hygiene/sanitary procedures, Milk/dairy products, Meat Source: FAO, FAOLEX