Section R58-11-6 - Slaughtering Procedures of Livestock(1) Slaughtering may not take place under adverse conditions such as blowing dirt, dust, or mud.(2) If a licensee uses a slaughter area for repeated kills, the licensee shall maintain the area to prevent blood from collecting, running off onto adjacent property, or contaminating a water source.(3) A licensee shall remove and dispose of any hides, viscera, blood, pounch material, and tissue at a rendering facility, landfill, composting, or burial as allowed by law.(4) A licensee shall make each animal insensible to pain by a single blow, gunshot, electrical shock, or other means that is instantaneous and effective before the animal is shackled, hoisted, thrown, cast, or cut.(5)(a) A licensee shall hoist and bleed each animal as soon after stunning as possible to utilize post-stunning heart action and to obtain complete bleeding.(b) A licensee shall move carcasses away from the bleeding area for skinning and butchering.(6) A licensee shall: (a) handle the carcass and head skin without contaminating the neck tissue by leaving the ears on the hide and tying the head skin;(b) remove the feet before the carcass is otherwise cut;(c) except for skinning and starting skinning procedures, cut the skin from the inside outward to prevent carcass contamination with cut hair; and(d) carefully roll or reflect away the hair side of the hide from the carcass during skinning when the carcass is moved from the skinning bed, caution should be taken to prevent exposed parts from contacting adulterating surfaces.(7)(a) Before evisceration, a licensee shall tie the rectum, including the bladder neck, to prevent urine and fecal leakage.(b) A licensee shall take care while opening abdominal cavities to prevent carcass or viscera contamination.(8)(a) A licensee shall trim hair, dirt, and other accidental contamination before washing.(b) Washing should proceed from the carcass top downward to remove any possible contaminants from clean areas.(9) Emergency slaughter does not include the slaughter of non-ambulatory injured cattle. For this rule, the department does not allow non-ambulatory disabled cattle that cannot rise from a recumbent position or cannot walk, including, those with broken appendages, severed tendons or ligaments, nerve paralysis, fractured vertebral column, or metabolic conditions to be slaughtered for food.Utah Admin. Code R58-11-6
Amended by Utah State Bulletin Number 2015-24, effective 11/23/2015Amended by Utah State Bulletin Number 2021-09, effective 4/12/2021Amended by Utah State Bulletin Number 2022-03, effective 1/12/2022Amended by Utah State Bulletin Number 2024-09, effective 4/22/2024Amended by Utah State Bulletin Number 2024-21, effective 10/15/2024