Building Abattoirs / Slaughterhouses and Consulting to the Meat Industry
Red meat abattoirs are premises used in the slaughtering of abattoir animals for human consumption.
This includes buildings and holding yards.
It does not include premises used in the slaughter of poultry, rabbit, ratite or crocodile meat – see non-red meat abattoirs.
Red meat includes meat from bovine (cow, ox, buffalo), bubaline (antelope), camel, caprine (goat), cervidae (deer), ovine (sheep), porcine (pig) and soliped (horse) species.
Related sites
Food Standards Code & user guides- external site
Slaughter of animals sold for human consumption (NSW Department of Primary Indu…
