Animal welfare at slaughter and killing for disease control

The eLearning course aims to improve the knowledge and skills of staff performing official controls concerning animal welfare at slaughter and killing for disease control purposes.

This eLearning course should improve participants’ knowledge on:

• Relevant EU legislation (mainly focusing on Regulation (EC) No 1099/2009).
• Scientific basis for pre-slaughter handling, stunning, slaughter and culling of animals (basic animal behaviour, physiology and anatomy).
• Animal keeping and assessment of keeping facilities.
• Main stunning and killing techniques at slaughterhouses in Europe and in the context of culling for disease control purposes.
• Animal welfare measures (mainly from Welfare Quality® Protocols).
• Killing of animals in the context of animal disease epidemics.

The scientific content is mainly focused on the following animal species: cattle, pigs, small ruminants and broiler chickens.