Resolution No. 444 of 2013 of Georgian Government on Rules for Veterinary Inspection of Animals to be Slaughtered and Meat and Meat Products

The Resolution regulates veterinary-sanitary assessment of animal products. It consists of 32 articles: Scope of application (1); Legislative basis (2); Definition of terms (3); General provisions (4); Requirements for processing, transporting and storing animals before slaughter (5); Requirements for processing animals (6); Requirements for compulsory slaughtering of animals (7); Veterinary-sanitary assessment of body and organs of slaughtered animals (8); Assessment of products of slaughtered animal (9); Assessment in the cases of infectious and invasive diseases List A of infectious diseases (10); List B of infectious diseases (11); List B of invasive diseases (12); Assessment in cases of non-communicable diseases (13); Assessment of products of slaughtered animals in cases of poisoning and processing the animals with veterinary drugs (14); Assessment of products of slaughtered animals in cases of radiation damage (15); Assessment of slaughtered birds in cases of infectious, invasive and non-communicable diseases List A of infectious diseases (16); List B of infectious diseases (17); List B of invasive diseases (18); Assessment of products of slaughtered birds in case of non-communicable diseases (19); Assessment of wild animals and hunted birds (20); Assessment of products of slaughtered hare and coypu (21); Veterinary-sanitary control of sausages, ham, processed and canned meat (22); Veterinary-sanitary control of fat, intestine products and food of animal origin (23); Veterinary-sanitary control of meat and meat products in refrigerators (24); Assessment and state control of meat on agricultural markets (25); Rules for rendering harmless meat and meat products (26); Laboratory examination of meat and meat products (27); Body temperature, pulse and respiration indicators of a healthy animal (28); Methods for physical-chemical assessment of meat (29); Methods for assessment of melted fat (30); Organoleptic and physical-chemical indicators of fats in livestock and wildlife (31); and Examination of meat for trichinosis (32).