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Recommendation
Basis of assessment
Assessment
2014-7060 -7
This recommendation is based on findings (48 and 49) and related conclusion (61) of the audit report that the intensity of Action taken
the electric currents applied for stunning poultry is well below the minimum required by the Regulation (EC) No
The CA should ensure that 1099/2009 even though there is no scientific evidence to guarantee that all birds have been stunned instead of electrically
the stunning parameters immobilised. In consequence at least 6% of the broilers showed signs of clear recovery of consciousness before dying from
specified in Annex I of bleeding out.
Regulation (EC) No
1099/2009 for electrical
The competent authority original and up-dated (March 2015) responses:
stunning of poultry are
applied, as required by SVA stated that it had started already on-site checks to collect data also related to the water-bath stunning parameters used
Article 4(1) of that at poultry slaughterhouses. In all cases where necessary technology adaptations is required, the RVA will issue a binding
Regulation.
instruction to business operators requesting them, with a feasible term, to change the system to be in compliance with
Regulation. SVA expects five "the water-bath stunning" and six "the head only electric stunning" binding instructions to be
announced in April 2015.
Information from GFA 2015-7656:
In 2014 SVA instructed RVAs to carry out in slaughterhouses verifications that included, between the others, requirements
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Assessment
for electric stunning of poultry as required by Regulation (EC) No 1099/2009. Between December 2014 and April 2015,
RVAs' inspectors have carried out verifications in all poultry slaughterhouses. Inspectors found all poultry slaughterhouses
to be in compliance with requirements for parameters of electric stunning.
In two slaughterhouses visited during audit No.: 2014-7060 operators have taken corrective actions itself and have changed
the parameters for electric stunning and developed relevant changes in their SOPs immediately after the audit took place.
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Document Outline
- Introduction
- Main issues
- Follow up status of recommendations by control system
- 2.A HORIZONTAL RECOMMENDATIONS
- 2.B.1. Animal Health
- 2.B.2. Food of animal origin
- 2.B.3. Imports of animals and food of animal origin
- 2.B.4. Feedingstuffs and animal nutrition
- 2.B.5. TSE/ABP
- 2.B.6. Veterinary medicines and residues
- 2.B.7. Foodstuffs and food hygiene
- 2.B.8. Imports of food of plant origin
- 2.B.9. Plant protection products
- 2.B.10. Animal welfare
- 2.B.11. Plant Health
- 2.B.12. Quality labelling
- 2.B.13. Overview of more recent audits
- ANNEX I - ACRONYMS, ABBREVIATIONS AND SPECIAL TERMS