Slaughtering tools and other implements used must be for the slaughter of halal animals only; - The knife must be long enough, razor sharp and without blemishes and damage; the animal's carotid arteries, jugular veins, trachea and oesophagus must be severed.
Halal is Arabic for permissible. Halal food is that which adheres to Islamic law, as defined in the Koran. The Islamic form of slaughtering animals or poultry, dhabiha, involves killing through a cut to the jugular vein, carotid artery and windpipe.
