Black River Meats: Non-Compliance to Humane Livestock Handling in 2025 (USDA)
See the detail of the non-compliance of humane livestock handling that the USDA observed at the Black River Meats slaughterhouse establishment in 2025.
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313.2
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 at 6:40 A.M. While conducting a Livestock Humane Handling task (HATS Category III: Water and Feed Availability), I, CSI REDACTED, observed noncompliance of 9CFR 313.2(e). In pens 1 and 2 of the establishment’s cattle offloading/holding area I observed two metal bins (one in each pen) that were iced over and nearly empty (approximately a few inches of ice near the bottom). There are approximately twenty head of cattle being held in pens 1 and 2 as of 6:40 A.M. This is noncompliance of the regulation stated above. This NR is being associated with NR Number: CZX3409010917N which was issued by CSI REDACTED on 1/17/2025. I informed REDACTED and Owner REDACTED of the noncompliance and that I would be issuing a written NR.
313.2
At 0745 hours, while observing HATS category I, Inclement Weather, and HATS category III, Water and Feed Availability, I, CSI REDACTED, observed the following noncompliance. There were three bulls in Pen 3, but the water provided to them in the white plastic barrels was frozen. Unlike the water tanks in Pens 1 &2, there were no heaters available to keep the water open in the sub-freezing temperatures. 9CFR 313.2(e) states in part that animals shall have access to water in all holding pens and, if held longer than 24 hours, access to feed. When notified of the non-compliance, establishment co-owner REDACTED broke apart the ice in the container and filled it with water, so I took no regulatory control action.
