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... agenda items to be discussed will include: the scottish national food and drink policy: recipe for successthe scottish government scudamore review: review of fsa and meat inspection service in scotlandoverview of shellfish surveillance and enforcement in scotlandthe extension of remedial action notices to all food establishmentsimports strategypublication of meat hygiene audit reportsproposal to relax certain provision of the current feed banreview of official control delivery for meat hygiene the agenda can be viewed via the link below

... proposals to examine a move to a privatised system of third-party inspection of primary meat premises were rejected by the food standards agency’s (fsa’s) board early last week ... in its response to the macdonald farming regulation task force report and the 19 recommendations that related directly to the fsa , the board agreed with all but one about setting up a group to consider the provision of meat inspection services by third parties ... currently under existing regulations, meat inspections across the eu are strictly regulated ... monopoly situation however, many in the meat industry argue that this monopoly situation is unnecessarily prescriptive and costly ... there have been a number of recent calls for a change to eu law to enable a more risk-based approach to meat inspections ... the industry wants any revised meat inspection regime to be open to private third-party companies in a similar way to that operating in other high-risk sectors of the food manufacturing industry ... but the agency, unions representing meat inspectors and other consumer groups argue that the 'privatisation' of meat inspections would jeopardise food safety in high-risk meat production sectors

... the board agreed substantially with all but one of the recommendations: many of which, such as the changes to dairy hygiene inspection, have already been implemented ... the board rejected, at this time, the recommendation to set up a group to consider the provision of meat inspection services by third parties

... the food standards agency’s (fsa’s) board today responded to meat industry lobbying by agreeing to recommend that ministers adopt a “tapered” approach to the introduction of meat inspection charges ... pension fund deficit the fsa also agreed not to impose historical meat inspector pension fund deficit liabilities on companies as part of the new arrangements ... ” this reduced the meat inspection cost recovery bill to the industry from £55m to £50 ... 3m in efficiency savings in its meat inspection operations, but there is “an awful lot more to be tapped into” , the fsa’s director for scotland charles milne said ... tiered approach under the original “tiered approach” proposals, whereby the fsa had sought to recover the full costs of inspections, abattoirs with a throughput of less than 1,000 slaughtered animals a year would receive support for 70% of their inspection costs, while those between 1,000 and 2,000 would receive 50% support and those between 2,000 and 5,000, 25% of their costs ... however, following consultation with stakeholders over recent weeks, the fsa board accepted that this could distort development of the primary meat processing sector, given a disincentive for abattoirs to move into the higher bands, since all their animals would then be charged at the higher rate ... effective monopoly while hard-pressed small abattoirs are likely to welcome the changes, the amendments are unlikely to dispel industry criticisms that it is being subjected to an inefficient and costly inspection regime by an effective monopoly in the fsa ... fsa board member and farmer tim bennett said: “we have failed to convince [meat processors], because we have not got evidence that we [the fsa operations inspections system] are pretty good about what we do ... ” bennett called for evidence that the inspection regime in the uk was as efficient as others across the eu ... ” unlike in other food manufacturing sectors, the eu’s meat inspections are covered by prescriptive legislation

... the bill would amend the poultry products inspection act, the federal meat inspection act and the federal food, drug and cosmetic act to prohibit the sale of any food that has not been certified to be pathogen free ... the bill would requires that labels on ground beef, or any other ground meat product, specifically name every cut of meat that is contained in the product, and; does away with loopholes in current laws that allow for producers to add coloring, synthetic flavorings and spices to their products without informing the consumer

... there are too few federal inspectors to guarantee the safety of meat in canada, warns the agriculture union of the public service alliance of canada ... meat inspectors can complete minimum safety tasks effectively in just two plants but are expected to check 4 ... the canadian food inspection agency (cfia) has appointed 34 inspectors to monitor safety standards in 117 production and storage facilities around the city ... in the vancouver area, each federal meat inspector is assigned to nearly six plants at peak work times ... the union revealed the mis-match between workload and workforce as part of its staffing survey in advance of a canadian government parliamentary sub-committee investigating the country's meat inspection system ... the probe follows last year’s fatal outbreak of listeriosis traced to contaminated meat produced at a maple leaf foods plant in toronto ... " there are less than 200 meat inspectors in canada ... " the survey of inspectors included those working in big processing plants that prepare ready-to-eat meat and the cold storage plants where food is certified for import and export

... the us agriculture department, now investigating the second-largest meat recall in history, would gain authority to issue civil fines against companies that make unsafe food, under a bill introduced on thursday by three democrats ... currently, the usda can only urge a company to do so or threaten to pull federal meat inspectors out of a plant that refuses to cooperate ... many of the 28 people sickened by the conagra meat live in colorado ... consumer groups say the usda needs authority to levy civil fines as a tool to discipline meat and poultry companies with frequent food safety violations ... earlier this month, the general accounting office found dozens of us meat plants that failed government food safety guidelines were allowed to continue selling hamburgers and chicken to consumers ... the gao said federal meat inspectors last year told 60 plants they would have to halt production because of faecal contamination and salmonella, but the usda did not follow through in virtually all the cases ... separately, the consumer groups public citizen and the government accountability project called for a congressional investigation into the usda's meat inspection program ... coli-contaminated meat was being produced at the conagra plant

... the proposal, one of five others that make up the so-called 'hygiene package' of measures foreshadowed in the action plan of the commission's white paper on food safety, provides for revised rules for official controls on fresh meat, live bivalve molluscs, and milk and milk products ... with regards to meat, the proposal integrates the latest opinions of the scientific committee on veterinary measures related to public health, implementing a science-based approach to meat inspection ... it also implements a risk-based approach to meat inspection, aimed at protecting the consumer from all relevant hazards linked to the consumption of meat, and integrates the "farm to fork" approach into the meat inspection system, establishing a continuous flow of information between primary production and slaughterhouses ... the new proposal also creates a clear division of responsibilities between the slaughterhouse operator and the competent authorities, and brings meat inspection legislation into line with forthcoming eu legislation particularly in the fields of hygiene, zoonoses and official feed and food controls

... sakaguchi said the carcass of the cow, which had initially tested positive for the disease at a meat inspection centre in hokkaido on tuesday, would be burned to ensure its meat does not make its way to consumers ... the health ministry said the latest case showed that stringent tests on slaughtered meat since october 18 were catching tainted beef before it reached consumers ... "the government will take every step possible to secure the safety of meat and other products and to dispel worries among the public," top government spokesman yasuo fukuda told reporters