Document Details
Name of Department/Committee : FAD 18
Document Number : FAD 18 ( 28477)
Document Title [English] : ANTE-MORTEM AND POST-MORTEM INSPECTION OF MEAT ANIMALS CODE OF PRACTICE Third Revision of IS 1982
Document Title [Hindi] : मीट देने वाले पशुओं का एंटी-मॉर्टम और पोस्ट-मॉर्टम निरीक्षण — रीति संहिता (आइ एस 1982 का तीसरा पुनरीक्षण)
Document Type : Revision
Language : English
Priority : 3
ICS Code : 67.120.10
Date of Project Approval : 30-06-2025
Standards to be Revised :
Sl.No. Is No & Year
1 IS 1982: 2015
Standards to be Superseded :
Sl.No. Is No & Year
1 IS 1982: 2015


Classification Details
Group : Food, Food Products and food processing equipments
Sub Group : Fish, meat and their products
Sub Sub Group : Slaughter House and Equipments and components
Aspects : Code of Practice
Risk : None
Certification : Not Certifiable
Short Commom Man's Title : Ante-mortem and post-mortem inspection of meat animals
ITCHS Code :
Ministry :
  • Ministry of Food Processing Industries
  • Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying And Fisheries - Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying
  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare - Department of Health and Family Welfare
Sustainable development Goals :
  • RESPOSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION
  • GOOD HEALTH AND WELL BEING
  • INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
Degree of Equivalence : Indigenous
Identical/Equivalent Standards :
Organization Type:

Sl.No. Synosis Points
1 All the food animals destined for slaughter are subjected to a brief clinical examination by a qualified veterinarian before they enter the slaughter line (i.e., the ante mortem inspection, AM) and a concise pathological–anatomical examination after most of the internal organs have been removed and made accessible for close inspection (i.e., the post mortem inspection, PM). These two examinations together determine whether an animal may be slaughtered for human consumption, and if that slaughtered animal is fit for human consumption, so that its meat and edible by-products may indeed enter the human food chain.
2 This standard prescribes the code of practice for the ante-mortem and post-mortem inspection of meat producing animals.
3 In order to provide required guidance to slaughterhouses, meat science practitioners and other relevant stakeholders regarding ante-mortem and post-mortem inspection of meat animals, this standard was first published in 1962. Further, it got revised in 1971 with a view to modify the earlier requirements in the light of experience gained by various government and private agencies in the ante-mortem and post-mortem inspection of meat animals. This third revision is undertaken to align the standard with the Recommended International Code of Hygienic Practice for Meat (CAC/RCP 58: 2005); Food Safety and Standard (Licensing and Registration of Food Businesses) Regulations, 2011; and latest advancements in terms of industrial best practices.

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