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    Safe meat: Consumers' protection union calls on government and
    businessmen to build modern slaughterhouses

    Social | 01.07.11 | 14:06

    NAZIK ARMENAKYAN
    ArmeniaNow


    By Siranuysh Gevorgyan
    ArmeniaNow reporter


    Consumer Rights Protection NGO expert Victor Abrahamyan considers it
    very alarming that the slaughter of animals in Armenia customarily
    takes place in `yard conditions' and not at special slaughter-houses
    as it was the case during Soviet times.

    `Yard slaughter is fraught with the danger of spreading various
    infections,' Abrahamyan stressed at a press conference on Friday,
    adding that animal slaughter is mainly carried out without
    professional supervision, in unsanitary conditions.

    The expert says that slaughterhouses need to be established so that
    the slaughter of animals be not only safe, but also profitable, since,
    as he put it, `in slaughterhouses only animals' mooing and bellowing
    is lost.'

    `During slaughter in yard conditions the slaughtered animal's
    intestines are thrown to dogs, while useful things can be made of it,
    such as insulin from animal pancreas, and in [house conditions] it is
    not used,' said Abrahamyan.

    The Consumers Rights Protection NGO, aiming to improve the meat and
    meat products safety situation in Armenia, has launched a multimedia
    campaign as part of the `Support for the Development of
    Slaughterhouses in Armenia' program, which is being implemented with
    the assistance of the Ministry of Agriculture and the UN Food and
    Agriculture Organization and with the funding of the Greek government.

    Abrahamyan urged businesspeople to build slaughterhouses, saying that
    it will cost 30,000-50,000 to build a slaughterhouse, while under the
    program a businessman will get equipment for the facility free of
    charge.

    Besides the problem of the absence of slaughterhouses, specialists
    single out the issue of unhygienic transportation and sale of meat and
    meat products and a faulty application of the legislation in this
    regard. Selling meat without refrigeration for the first time is
    penalized with a fine of up to 50,000 drams (about $135), while a
    repeat offense entails a fine of up to 300,000 drams (more than $800).

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