Spanish slaughterhouses should set up video surveillance to watch animal welfare as a part of a authorities measure permitted Tuesday in a European Union first.

All abattoirs no matter measurement should abide by the regulation printed by the ministry of shopper affairs, which goals to ensure animal welfare requirements within the unloading, switch, lairage and beautiful of the animals through the slaughter course of.

Giant slaughterhouses may have one 12 months to implement the change whereas smaller services may have two.

“Spanish slaughterhouses would be the first within the EU to have obligatory video surveillance methods,” Spain’s consumption affairs minister, Alberto Garzon, tweeted. “Cameras that may assist enhance meals security and keep away from breaches in animal welfare.”

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