EFSA SET TO DELIVER INDICATORS FOR MONITORING OF NEW ANIMAL WELFARE RULES IN SLAUGHTERHOUSES
February 1st, 2013
THE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is set to deliver animal welfare guidance by November to help European Union (EU) member states assess the compliance of their slaughterhouses with EU animal welfare rules in effect since the beginning of the year. This will include the awareness of indicators designed to prove whether an animal is unconscious or dead: a faulty assessment could bring intense suffering to an animal in the slaughterhouse, if it was aware of its surroundings.This follows a request by the European Commission for indicators of death or ...
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