New Rules To Help Meat Processors & Shoppers

New Rules To Help Meat Processors & Shoppers

The changes come after careful engagement with micro operators who told officials the rules were unnecessarily restrictive and costly with no additional benefit to food safety.

New rules to help meat processors & shoppers

Small-scale meat processors will save money and deliver safe food to their customers more easily thanks to new rule changes confirmed today, says Food Safety Minister Andrew Hoggard.  Under the new rules, processors with a very low throughput will be subject to reduced sampling and testing requirements while maintaining current high food safety standards. In practice this means a minimum of 30 carcasses sampled in the first season, reducing to 1…