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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