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Domestic Abattoirs
Galway County Council Veterinary Department regulates 10 domestic abattoirs in the county. These abattoirs are licenced to slaughter locally sourced cattle and sheep for supply to butchers, wholesalers, retailers, and individual people for deep freeze purposes.
Click here for a list of abattoirs supervised by Galway County Council Veterinary Services
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The following work is carried out by Galway County Council Veterinary Service. to ensure that the highest possible standard of hygiene & welfare exists in these abattoirs
- Licencing of abattoirs
- Ante – and post – mortem inspections by qualified V.I. of every animal slaughtered
- Regular inspections of the abattoirs – Hygiene, welfare, labelling & tracability & waste.
- Licencing of slaughter men to carry out slaughter of animals humanely & hygienically.
- Regular sampling at these abattoirs. This includes water sampling, meat sampling for chemical residues (including antibiotics, anthelmitics, illegal growth promoters, tranquilisers & heavy metals & hormones) and microbiological sampling of meat. Residue sampling is part of the National Residue Control Plan
