Low atmospheric pressure system for stunning broiler chickens

null EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW); Simon More; Dominique Bicout; Anette Bøtner; Andrew Butterworth; Paolo Calistri; Klaus Depner; Sandra Edwards; Bruno Garin-Bastuji; Margaret Good; Christian Gortazar Schmidt; Miguel Angel Miranda; Søren Saxmose Nielsen; Liisa Sihvonen; Hans Spoolder; Preben Willeberg; Mohan Raj; Hans-Hermann Thulke; Antonio Velarde; Alexei Vyssotski; Christoph Winckler; José Cortiñas Abrahantes; Ana Garcia; Irene Muñoz Guajardo; Gabriele Zancanaro; Virginie Michel

doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2017.5056

Low atmospheric pressure system for stunning broiler chickens

EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW), Simon More, Dominique Bicout, Anette Bøtner, Andrew Butterworth, Paolo Calistri, Klaus Depner, Sandra Edwards, Bruno Garin-Bastuji, Margaret Good, Christian Gortazar Schmidt, Miguel Angel Miranda, Søren Saxmose Nielsen, Liisa Sihvonen, Hans Spoolder, Preben Willeberg, Mohan Raj, Hans-Hermann Thulke, Antonio Velarde, Alexei VyssotskiChristoph Winckler, José Cortiñas Abrahantes, Ana Garcia, Irene Muñoz Guajardo, Gabriele Zancanaro, Virginie Michel

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Council Regulation (EC) No 1099/2009 on the protection of animals at the time of killing lists in Annex I the stunning interventions currently allowed in the EU, together with the related conditions under which those interventions can be implemented. The regulation allows the Commission to amend Annex I, listing additional stunning interventions, provided they ensure a level of animal welare at least equivalent to that ensured by the one already approved. EFSA was requested to perform such assessment with regard to the implementation of the low atmospheric pressure stunning (LAPS) system on broiler chickens. The ad hoc Working Group (WG) set up by EFSA performed the assessment in three main steps, i.e. checking the data provided against the criteria laid down in the EFSA Guidance (EFSA AHAW Panel, 2013); running an extensive literature search, followed by data extraction and performing a judgemental ranking exercise based on expert opinion. As main outcome, the LAPS intervention was found to be able to provide a level of animal welfare not lower than that provided by at least one of the currently allowed methods. The overall assessment of EFSA is valid ONLY under the technical conditions described in the submission and for broiler chickens, intended for human consumption, weighting less than 4 kg. Deviations from these conditions might have different consequences for animal welfare which were not assessed in this exercise. The LAPS method may, in addition to commercial slaughter, be suitable for depopulation, respecting the technical conditions defined in the present conclusions. The WG considers that a revision of the present version of the EFSA Guidance could be beneficial.

Original language	English
Article number	e05056
Journal	EFSA Journal
Volume	15
Issue number	12
Number of pages	86
ISSN	1831-4732
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2017.5056
Publication status	Published - 21 Dec 2017

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EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW), More, S., Bicout, D., Bøtner, A., Butterworth, A., Calistri, P., Depner, K., Edwards, S., Garin-Bastuji, B., Good, M., Gortazar Schmidt, C., Miranda, M. A., Nielsen, S. S., Sihvonen, L., Spoolder, H., Willeberg, P., Raj, M., Thulke, H-H., Velarde, A., ... Michel, V. (2017). Low atmospheric pressure system for stunning broiler chickens. EFSA Journal, 15(12), [e05056]. https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2017.5056

EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW), More, S, Bicout, D, Bøtner, A, Butterworth, A, Calistri, P, Depner, K, Edwards, S, Garin-Bastuji, B, Good, M, Gortazar Schmidt, C, Miranda, MA, Nielsen, SS, Sihvonen, L, Spoolder, H, Willeberg, P, Raj, M, Thulke, H-H, Velarde, A, Vyssotski, A, Winckler, C, Cortiñas Abrahantes, J, Garcia, A, Muñoz Guajardo, I, Zancanaro, G & Michel, V 2017, 'Low atmospheric pressure system for stunning broiler chickens', EFSA Journal, vol. 15, no. 12, e05056. https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2017.5056

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