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| Humane Interactive Knowledge Exchange (HIKE) Scenario 01-04 |
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this HIKE:
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You are the IIC of a cull cow and
bull slaughter and processing establishment.
Slaughter operations have been working overtime,
including Saturdays, to meet the increased
production demand, and the establishment is having
difficulty with finding enough pen space to hold
animals needed for a ten hour slaughter day.
One morning, as you arrive at the livestock holding
area to perform ante-mortem inspection, you observe
that two of the alleyways leading to the holding
pens contain 12-15 cattle that have been left in
these improvised pens overnight. You observe these
animals a few minutes and realize that they can not
reach the water troughs in the adjacent holding pens, and drinking water
has not been provided by other temporary means.
As the IIC, you need to determine whether a
noncompliance has occurred and consider what
actions need to be pursued, if any, at this time.
You determine that a noncompliance exists with
respect to regulation 9 CFR 313.2(e); access to
water had not been provided to these animals (The
alleyways were closed and animals were placed
inside; therefore, the alleyways became holding
pens. The cited regulation requires access to
drinking water in all holding pens). You inform
plant management of the noncompliance, and their immediate
corrective action is to fill several buckets with
water and place them in the alley where the cattle
can reach them. Verbally, the barn foreman informs
you that the preventative measures that will be
taken to ensure that all animals have access to
water is to provide barrels of water for animals in
an alley which will be secured by chains to prevent
the barrels from being tipped over. Additionally, a
receiving log will be implemented so that the plant
employee(s) who receives cattle must document that
water was provided to the animals penned in the alleyways.
You write a Noncompliance Record (NR) using
04C02 task code and the "Protocol" trend indicator
(FSIS Notice 50-02), citing the appropriate
regulation, 9 CFR 313.2(e), and send a copy of the
completed NR to the District Office along with the
establishment's corrective actions and preventative measures.
The following day you arrive at the barn and notice
that animals have again been penned in the
alleyways. You view the alleyways and see that
filled barrels of drinking water have been placed
in the improvised pens, and you observe a notation
in the receiving log that the receiving employee
documented that water was provided to the animals
in the alley. You conclude that the animals in the
alley have adequate access to water as required by
9 CFR 313.2(e).
Conclusion
The plant employee who was responsible for
unloading and penning the cattle was unaware that
the cattle that he penned in the alleyways did not
have access to water. Under normal circumstances,
the establishment has adequate pen space to
accommodate all the cattle slaughtered in a
production day and these pens have permanent
watering troughs. The establishment was informed,
regardless of the circumstance, that they are
required to actively monitor both the animals&146;
environment and their handling procedures to assure
regulatory requirements are being met. In this
case, noncompliance should and was documented and
regulatory control action taken accordingly.
Moreover, the effectiveness of the corrective
actions that were implemented by the establishment
should be verified by inspection personnel.
Appendix
Regulatory References:
- 9 CFR 313.2(e): Animals shall
have access to water in all holding pens and, if
held longer than 24 hours, access to feed. There
shall be sufficient room in the holding pen for
animals held overnight to lie down.
- FSIS Notice 50-02: ISP Procedure Code For Humane Slaughter
- Humane Methods of Livestock Slaughter Act of 1978, URL address:
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/7/ch48.html
The Humane Interactive Knowledge Exchange (HIKE) is a service of the FSIS
Technical Service Center and DVMS to foster awareness and regulatory
compliance for the welfare of livestock. It is important that everyone
understands that HIKE and the information herein is intended for the use of all
field employees and to be shared with plant management. If questions pertaining
to any of the scenarios, or answers provided on HIKE are not resolved through
discussions within the work-group or with the supervisor,
they should be submitted to: HIKE@fsis.usda.gov.
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