Guidelines concerning food chain information. Pays/Territoire Danemark Type du document Miscellaneous Date 2023 Source FAO, FAOLEX Sujet Bétail, Alimentation et nutrition Mot clé Viande Contrôle de qualité alimentaire/innocuité des produits alimentaires Production animale Abattage Inspection Collecte de données/déclarations Médicaments Traçabilité/traçage du produit Santé des animaux Aire géographique Europe, Europe et Asie Centrale, Pays de l'Union Européenne, Mer du Nord, Atlantique du Nord-Est, Europe du Nord Résumé The present Guidelines, issued by the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration, are aimed at livestock owners and slaughterhouses as well as official veterinarians and on-duty veterinarians (in the meat inspection and in the veterinary section). They are concerned with food chain information, understood as information that must be sent with animals to be slaughtered for food. This includes: 1) rules on food chain information and the information slaughterhouse must have received before the animals may be slaughtered; 2) the food chain information to be provided when animals are sent for slaughter either directly from a farm or via a trader; 3) some of the methods to submit food chain information; and 4) the authorized veterinarian's control to ensure that the requirements concerning food chain information have been complied with. Animals may only be slaugthered if the relevant food chain information has been duly submitted. Texte intégral Danois Site web www.retsinformation.dk