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It is imperative for ethical reasons to minimise the suffering of animals
The controlled atmosphere stunning system uses a multi-stage, carbon dioxide atmosphere process.This is often the most reliable slaughter method for ensuring consistency in terms of good welfare and quality. Stress is reduced.
The carbon dioxide completely stuns and desensitises animals prior to slaughter. Controlled atmosphere that completely stuns and desensitises animals.
Eliminate handling
Virtually eliminates handling of active birds reducing shackle-line worker fatigue and improving job satisfaction.
Allows for improved shackling area lighting and housekeeping.
Better product
By eliminating the flapping and agitated state of birds, there is less bruising following the controlled atmosphere stunning process.
The quality of your product has the potential to improve, resulting in less trim and product loss.
Improves yield
Significantly improves product quality for your operation. Ability to revert to electrical stunning at any moment.
In many European countries, there is a regulatory, there is a regularity requirement to stunning pigs and poultry prior to slaughter.
Animal welfare
Birds remain unconscious until further processing steps, greatly reducing bruising and wing damage.
To ensure the well-being of the animal, it is required that the killing methods are not painful and spare the poultry and pigs from any avoidable pain or stress. This means stunning the animals prior to slaughter.
Ensuring the well-being of the pig leading up to, and including its stunning and slaughter is imperative for meat quality reasons, as well as for ethical reasons.
Poultry & Pig stunning
Nippon Gases supplies CO2 to a significant number of the leading poultry processors for stunning purposes.
When slaughtering chickens or turkeys for human consumption, it is imperative for ethical reasons, to ensure the well-being of the animal. Increasingly, carbon dioxide is being used for the stunning and killing of pigs. This is often the most reliable slaughter method to ensuring consistency in terms of good welfare and quality.
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