A list of requirements you need to meet when exporting meat.
Overseas Market Access Requirements (OMARs)
Notice of animals to be treated as game estate animals
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Details the programme recognised agencies must apply verifiying export animal materials and products (does not apply to live animals or germplasm).
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Requirements for the use, manufacture, supply and security of official devices and operator container seals for export animal products and animal material
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The previous circular outlines minimum sampling frequencies for physico-chemical testing of potable process/drinking water. The table of frequencies is followed by a note requiring head office notification of when samples are to be taken.
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The various regulations promulgated under the Meat Act of 1981, including those relating to meat and game, require licensees of premises to provide potable water for processing. Managers must conduct regular microbiological, chemical and physical examination of their water supplies to ensure potability.
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The scope of this code covers hygiene provisions for raw meat, meat preparations and manufactured meat from the time of live animal production up to the point of retail sale.
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The purpose of this Operational Code, also known as Code of Practice 5 (CoP5), is to summarise the requirements relating to the hygienic handling of meat and the production of products fit for their intended purpose, as set out in animal product standards and related specifications issued under the Animal Products Act 1999, and to provide guidance about how to meet these requirements. This applies to farmed sheep, lambs, cattle, bobby calves, deer, goats, pigs, horses, camelids, ostriches and emus. It also applies to dressing of killed wild animals, game estate animals and farmed gone feral animals of these species.
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Details the dispositions the post-mortem examiner must make based on certain diseases and defects when examining red meat intended for human consumption.
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Outlines how post-mortem examination must be carried out in dressing operations of red meat intended for human consumption.
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Outlines how carcasses and parts must be presented for post-mortem examination in dressing operations of red meat intended for human consumption.
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Provides guidance on good manufacturing practice, process control, and the application of HACCP principles for processed meats.
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Provides guidance on good manufacturing practice, process control, and the application of HACCP principles for processed meats.
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Animal Products Notice: Ante-mortem and Post-mortem examination of Mammals, Ostrich and Emu Intended for Human Consumption is being issued and will replace the current Animal Products (Ante-mortem and Post-mortem examination of Mammals, Ostrich and Emu Intended for Human Consumption) Notice 2006.
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For animal products intended for export to the EU, primary processors must source animals from suppliers compliant with the On-Farm and Stock Saleyard Verification regulated control scheme.
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Requirements for animal products and material intended for export, to meet the Official Assurance Specifications.
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Provides for an alternative meat inspection programme that allows competent company employees to undertake inspection to identify non-food safety conditions.
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Approval and requirements for post-mortem inspection trials in slaughter operations intended to be eligible for countries requiring official inspection.
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Requirements for inspection agencies carrying out ante- and postmortem inspection of animal material and products exported with official assurances.
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Requirements for the use, manufacture, supply and security of official devices and operator container seals for export animal products and animal material
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Game estate animals intended for human consumption and/or export as wild game must meet the harvesting and processing requirements specified in this notice
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On-farm verification regulated control scheme notice for European Union market access requirements
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Animal product operators (with specified exceptions) are required to implement and maintain, site specific, risk organism response plans.
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