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Development of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for slaughter of Australian sheep and goats in overseas markets

Project start date: 05 August 2011
Project end date: 09 December 2011
Publication date: 09 December 2011
Project status: Completed
Livestock species: Sheep, Lamb

Summary

​The purpose of this project was to develop a series of SOPs for the slaughter of sheep and goats to complement the documents produced for cattle.  SOPs have been developed by gathering existing guidelines, standards, job descriptions and process information.  The SOPs have been implemented in market.