STUNNING ADVICE
July 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLNEW research is "urgently" needed to inform better guidelines on stunning methods minimising distress to livestock at slaughterhouses, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has said. In an assessment of stunning, EFSA said detailed investigations should focus on the "mechanisms and effects of the different stunning methods, their technical and organisational performance in practice and improved and continuing education of the staff to ensure good animal welfare". EFSA examined the three most common stunning methods and found problems across ...
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