Safe Food for Canadians Regulations (SOR/2018-108)

Marginal note:Ritual slaughter

144 Despite section 141, a licence holder who ritually slaughters a food animal to comply with Judaic or Islamic law must

• (a) restrain the food animal;

• (b) administer one continuous, fluid cut with a knife, without the knife being lifted off the food animal, resulting in the rapid, simultaneous and complete severance of the jugular veins and carotid arteries, in a manner that causes the animal to bleed immediately; and

• (c) rapidly and completely bleed it, to render it unconscious in a manner that prevents it from regaining consciousness before death.