Hygiene & Sanitation Guidelines - Slaughterhouses and Meat Processing Industry
Hygiene & Sanitation Guidelines - Slaughterhouses and Meat Processing Industry
Take a red meat or poultry plant from lairage to cold chain under a single hygiene code.
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| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| Slaughterhouses and Meat Processing Industry | Word |
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Overview
The interior of a healthy animal is sterile, and everything after the knife subtracts from that. This guideline is aligned with the Codex Code of Hygienic Practice for Meat (CXC 58-2005), the General Principles of Food Hygiene with its HACCP mandate, and the WOAH Terrestrial Animal Health Code.
This is a single reference guideline rather than a document set: its annexes hold the temperature tables, red meat and poultry flow charts with their control points, a full inspection checklist and conformance mapping.
What it covers
- Establishment approval, hazard analysis and the HACCP mandate for a meat plant
- Plant location, layout and zoning, lairage, live animal reception, rest and welfare
- Slaughter, dressing, evisceration and kill floor hygiene, with sterilisable knives, scabbards, sanitising units and the three-sink regime
- Ante-mortem and post-mortem inspection, and disposition of unfit meat
- Cutting and meat products, poultry line times and temperatures, chilling, cold chain, transport, detention and recall
Who it's for
Slaughterhouse and meat plant operators, official veterinarians and meat inspectors, poultry processors and HACCP coordinators. An approval visit, an export listing or a customer audit asking how the kill floor is controlled is normally what prompts it, and what follows is one written code spanning welfare, inspection, chilling and traceability.
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A downloadable ZIP containing the full set of ready-to-use documents for this toolkit — manuals, procedures, forms, records, checklists, guidance and training material, all in editable Word and Excel format. The exact document count is shown at the top of this page.
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Does this certify my organisation?
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