NVWA reports lack of compliance in disinfection of livestock trucks
Dutch food safety watchdog (NWA) recommends further improvement for slaughterhouses in complying with animal welfare and cleaning and disinfection of livestock trucks after figures recorded in 23 large red meat slaughterhouses in the Netherlands show a drop in these sectors.
For animal welfare, the average compliance percentage is 97% percent. Nevertheless, the NVWA sees that there is still room for improvement in the area of animal welfare in the fixation, stunning and bleeding of the animals.
"It also happens that cattle wagons are overloaded or that animals that are too ill or too injured to be transported are nevertheless transported to the slaughterhouse. In order to prevent the spread of contagious animal diseases, it is important that cattle trucks are thoroughly cleaned and disinfected before they leave the slaughterhouse to pick up animals again. The NVWA sees that compliance on this point has dropped considerably at a number of companies. It is important for companies to better comply with these rules", mentions the report.
Photo source: NVWA
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