Electrical; stunning or slaughtering with electric current.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 9

The slaughtering of swine, sheep, calves, cattle, and goats with the use of electric current and the handling in connection therewith, in compliance with the provisions contained in this section, are hereby designated and approved as humane methods of slaughtering and handling of such animals under the Act. (a) (2) The driving or conveying of the animals to the place of application of electric current shall be done with a minimum of excitement and discomfort to the animals. Delivery of calm animals to the place of application is essential to ensure rapid and effective insensibility. Among other things, this requires that, in driving animals to the place of application, electrical equipment be used as little as possible and with the lowest effective voltage. (3) The quality and location of the electrical shock shall be such as to produce immediate insensibility to pain in the exposed animal. (4) The stunned animal shall remain in a state of surgical anesthesia through shackling, sticking, and bleeding. (b) (2) (3)

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 9:§ 313.30