Title: Circular No. 09/2016/TT-BNNPTNT of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development dated June 01, 2016, providing for animal slaughter control and veterinary hygiene inspection

Type: Circular

Issuing Agency: Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development

Responsible Agency: Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development

Issuing Date: 01-06-2016

Circular No. 09/2016/TT-BNNPTNT details the implementation of clauses 2 and 3 Article 74 of the Law on veterinary medicine, specifically as below:

·         List of animals subject to slaughter control; List of entities subject  to veterinary hygiene inspection; List of subjects of veterinary hygiene inspection.

·         Procedures for animal slaughter control; procedures and documents for veterinary hygiene inspection; samples of stamps of slaughter control and stamps of veterinary hygiene; regulations on the handling of animals/animal products unconformable to veterinary hygiene requirements.

Requirements for to be-slaughtered animals:

·         To be-slaughtered animals must be healthy, ensuriing veterinary hygiene requirements; animals which are injured or exhausted due to the transport and cannot recover but do not have clinic symptoms of infectious diseases may be priorly slaughtered.

·         To be-slaughter animals must have verified origin.

The Department of Animal Health will be responsible for :

·         Provide guidelines on the implementation of this Circular for entities specified in Article 2 of this Circular;

·         Formulate and submit to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development the framework programs applicable to entities specified in clause 1 Article 40 of this Circular and modify such programs according to the management requirements;

·         Comply with regulations in clauses 1, 2, 3 and 4 Article 75 of the Law on veterinary medicine;

·         Provide professional trainings for persons in charge of slaughter inspection working for provincial veterinary authorities.

This Circular comes into effect from July 16, 2016.

 

 

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