UEVP GA – BRUXELLES 2010 NOVEMBER 11th
REPORT ON FUTURE MEAT
INSPECTION
Thierry CHAMBON, vice pdt UEVP
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CONCLUSIONS
Event labelled by the EU Belgian Presidency
Objectives
– Goal: food safety, higher level of consumer
protection and consumer confidence
– Need to go forward to look for alternative but
inter-related methods looking for non visual
risks – to risk based revising of the
conventional system
– International recognitions and acceptance of
equivalence
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What kind of review? - Principles
Holistic approach including animal health,
animal welfare and public health (including
biological and chemical hazards), improving
the link between the different steps of the
meat chain
Main questions are, in this order:
What?
How?
By Whom?
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What kind of review? - Principles
Scientific based and risk oriented, effective and efficient
For practical reasons abattoir fulfills a key role in gaining
information on AH, AW and PH
Legal basis: general food law (R EC/178/2002)
First responsibility of the FBOs and CA audit;
Approval procedure, auditing procedure,
bonus/malus system;
Harmonisation of defined goals rather than the
means (suppress the contradictions). It implies more
flexibility and a targeted approach, though it should
be recognized that legislation is not used to its full
potential. Moreover, there are gaps in the
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implementation in all
MSs.
Tools
– Categorisation of risk profiles (country, farms,
slaughterhouses)
– Optimising the exchange of the Food Chain Information (in
particular regarding the feedback to the farmers)
– Integrated Quality systems
– Human resources [well educated FBOs and companies’ staff,
Competent Authorities (Official vets and auxiliaries)]
– Presence of CA is required permanently in slaughterhouses.
The expertise and professional accountability of veterinarians
is recognised and appreciated; however this does not mean
that every detail should be covered by a vet.
– Optimisation of the resources available
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Second Roundtable
meat inspection
Conclusions
SANCO second Roundtable
on the revision of meat inspection
Brussels, 25 October 2010
Eric Poudelet
Director
Directorate E - Safety of the food chain
Health & Consumers Directorate General
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Conclusions
• Revision of meat inspection is required
• Stakeholders have different positions but one single goal
which is supported; a world wide accepted risk based meat
inspection
• Bonus malus could be integrated in enforcement
• Global cooperation with all stakeholders is needed for
acceptance of the new risk based meat inspection
• German study clearly indicates already the possibility of risk
based meat inspection within present legislation
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Conclusions
• The new risk based meat inspection has
to be science based
• EFSA will provide opinions per species
starting from mid 2011 (pork)
• All participants are encouraged to
contribute to more scientific knowledge
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Conclusions
• More pilot projects are needed to gain
more experience about interventions
• To demonstrate equivalence with the
traditional inspection
• A global strategy is needed to promote
mutual acceptance of any revision
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Conclusions
• Revised meat inspection for pigs is not
just reducing Trichinella testing and
lymphnode incisions, but also
introducing Salmonella controls
• Reducing of some inspections may be
a byproduct of revising meat
inspection, but the main goal is
improving consumer protection
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Conclusions
• Next step; third Roundtable
Conference April 2011
• Focus on;
- global strategy for revision of
meat inspection; experience with
CCFH
- content of revision of meat
inspection; state of play for pork
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CONCLUSIONS FOR THE PRACTITIONNERS:
We must play a role in FCI
We need feed back information from the slaughterhouse
In the future Animal Health Law, each farm must have a Herd
Health management system, in every european country, to fulfill
the requirements of the future meat inspection
BUT:
we have to lobby for that!!!
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