The Abu Dhabi Authority for Agriculture and Food Safety warned of random slaughtering of livestock, or dealing with street ruminants, during the days of Eid Al-Fitr, stressing the importance of slaughtering in slaughterhouses to enhance the biosecurity system and consolidating the pillars of public health by preventing the risks of common diseases between humans and animals.
The authority emphasized that the slaughterhouses provide a set of ingredients that make the slaughtering process within it a necessity, the most important of which is combating pollution during slaughtering and preparing for the preparation of carcasses in a clean and hygienically safe environment from pollution, in addition to veterinary examination before and after slaughtering, and it also provides qualified and legally licensed butchers for this profession, in addition to To properly handle slaughter residues and their safe disposal, ensuring that biosecurity requirements are applied.
The authority pointed out that the veterinary inspection inside the slaughterhouses determines the viability of the carcasses for human consumption, monitors pathological pests, scientific evaluation of their severity, and identifies cases that require full or partial execution.
She explained that common diseases can be transmitted from animals to humans when humans come into contact with sick animal fluids and secretions, or eat their products, or indirectly from the surrounding environment through live transporters such as mosquitoes, lice and rodents, pointing out that the people most in contact with infected animals or the carriers are The most vulnerable to infection common diseases between humans and animals.