1, Animal welfare guidelines: Slaughterhouse must follow the principle of animal welfare in the slaughter process to ensure that animals suffer the least pain and discomfort. This includes providing a suitable feeding environment, avoiding violence and injury between animals, and adopting fast and effective slaughter methods. At the same time, slaughterhouses need to provide appropriate veterinary care for animals.
2. Food safety guidelines: Slaughterhouses must ensure food safety in the production process to prevent pollution and the spread of diseases. This requires slaughterhouses to disinfect equipment, tools and places regularly, train employees on food safety, and require employees to abide by personal hygiene standards. In addition, slaughterhouses need to comply with relevant laws and regulations and conduct strict quality inspection on meat products.
3. Environmental protection standards: slaughterhouses should take measures to reduce the discharge of waste water, waste gas and solid waste to prevent environmental pollution. This includes proper disposal of waste, implementation of wastewater treatment facilities, and reduction of noise and odor. At the same time, slaughterhouses should also carry out environmental publicity and education activities to improve employees' environmental awareness.
4. Staff training and safety guide: Slaughterhouses should conduct comprehensive training for their staff, including knowledge of safe production, animal welfare and food safety. At the same time, slaughterhouses need to provide necessary safety protection equipment to ensure the personal safety of employees during operation. And regularly carry out safety inspections to find and eliminate potential safety hazards in time.
5. Quality management system criteria: slaughterhouses should establish a perfect quality management system, from raw material procurement, production and processing to product sales, to ensure the quality of the whole process is controllable. This requires slaughterhouses to strictly control all links, continuously monitor product quality, and make adjustments and improvements according to actual conditions. At the same time, slaughterhouses also need to pay attention to customer feedback to meet market demand.
The role of slaughterhouses:
1. Providing meat products: slaughterhouses slaughter and process livestock such as pigs, cattle and sheep, and provide various meat products, such as pork, beef, mutton and chicken, which provide an important source for people's food consumption.
2. Promote economic development: As an important part of meat processing industry, slaughterhouses play an important role in promoting local economic development. They need a lot of labor and technical input, which promotes the employment in the surrounding areas and the development of related industries.
3. Ensure food safety: Slaughterhouse is an important part of meat processing, and its hygiene standards and processing technology can ensure the quality and safety of meat products. Through strict inspection and monitoring, prevent unqualified products from leaving the factory.
4. Promote agricultural harvest: The emergence of slaughterhouses has promoted the development of agriculture. By slaughtering and processing livestock, farmers can get better economic benefits. At the same time, the establishment of slaughterhouses also provides more employment opportunities for farmers.
5. Protecting environmental resources: slaughterhouses need to use and treat a large amount of water resources, so effective measures need to be taken to protect the environment and resources. Through scientific treatment and utilization, slaughterhouses can effectively reduce the generation of waste and its impact on the environment.