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29 March 2024

Caution against slaughtering animals outside abattoirs

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By Wam

The Municipality of Abu Dhabi City has cautioned the public against the risks of slaughtering animals at homes and residential areas or any other place outside municipal abattoirs in order to safeguard the health of community members, along with their families, against potential diseases associated with the slaughtering of animals in makeshift places.

Compliance with this call will ensure that the slaughtered animals are subjected to due veterinary tests at abattoirs and avoid the spread of diseases.

The municipality has stressed the need for consulting the veterinarian at the livestock market and abattoirs to seek advice on all matters relating to slaughtered animals in order to protect the community from diseases and epidemics. It called on the public to read the awareness bulletins posted in public waiting areas inside the slaughter houses.

It urged contractors undertaking slaughtering and cleaning works to step up the level of preparedness and readiness to cope with the increase in the number of slaughtered animals during the month of Ramadan, address the hygienic aspects and increase the number of butchers and workers deployed.

Khalifa Mohammed Al Rumaithi, Director of Public Health at the Municipality of Abu Dhabi City, said: "There is a set of key elements at the slaughterhouses that render the slaughtering process healthy and safe. The first and foremost element is carrying out veterinarian tests before and after the slaughtering process, ensuring that the slaughtering is carried out in a Sharia-compliant manner by qualified and licensed professional butchers, and ascertaining the proper disposal of slaughtering remnants such as blood, hides and non-expendable limbs through ensuring a safe disposal of wastes unfit for human consumption."

The municipality has adjusted the timing of receiving the public at all Abu Dhabi abattoirs during the month of Ramadan to start from 6am and continue through 06pm, and from 10pm to 1.30 am every day throughout all weekdays i.e. 16 and a half hours per day, except for Friday where the working time will start from 6am up to 11am and resume from 2pm and continue to 6pm in addition to a night shift from 10pm up to 1.30am.

The municipality confirms that there will be no change in the fees applicable to the slaughtering of animals, which are: Dh15 per goat/sheep, Dh40 per calf/young camel, and Dh60 per older cow/camel. Such fees include chopping of the slaughtered sheep or goat into four pieces, and camels and cows into six to eight pieces, depending on the request of the customer.

Cutting meat to meet individual requests will also be available based on a fee already clearly published at the slaughtering outlet.