Full-cycle veterinary control: why farmers will have to abandon old slaughter methods.

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From 2026, Kazakhstan has new requirements for the slaughter of farm animals intended for sale. Slaughter of cattle for subsequent sale should be carried out exclusively in specialized slaughter points with mandatory pre-slaughter veterinary examination and post-slaughter veterinary and sanitary examination.

The procedure for slaughtering and selling meat was explained in the Atameken Chamber of Entrepreneurs of the West Kazakhstan region. The main purpose of the innovations is to ensure biological safety and traceability of meat products.

According to the head of the West Kazakhstan Territorial Inspectorate of the Committee for Veterinary Control and Supervision Marat Utaraliev, only clinically healthy animals from areas free of quarantine diseases are allowed to be slaughtered for sale. Owners are required to ensure a full range of vaccinations against bacterial, viral and parasitic diseases within a year and a half from the birth of the animal.

In addition, a prerequisite for the legal sale of meat is the availability of data about the animal in the ILI information systems, the VetLab module and the Turt-Tulik system, which forms a single digital chain of traceability from the farm to the counter.

Since November 2025, a pilot project has been operating in the republic to connect retail facilities, catering and processing enterprises to the module "Veterinary and sanitary examination of meat". Veterinary monitoring makes it possible to exclude the sale of products that have not passed mandatory control procedures.

The Chamber of Entrepreneurs notes that at the first stage, technical difficulties are possible in the operation of information systems, but emphasize that the new requirements comply with the standards of the EAEU and are aimed at the prevention of dangerous diseases, including brucellosis and anthrax.