Posted: November 3rd, 2009 - 7:54am
Source: Farmers Weekly Interactive

Abattoirs could see their bills slashed by millions of pounds a year under Foods Standards Agency plans to shake up meat hygiene regulations.
The FSA's Scottish director, Professor Charles Milne, said the agency would set out proposals in its upcoming strategic plan to abolish rules forcing every carcass that passes through an abattoir to be inspected.
The plans are part of an attempt to modernise the system and make it "fit for purpose" in the 21st Century, Prof Milne said.
Negotiations with other countries and the European Commission to create a more proportionate and targeted risk-based system were already under way, he added.
A major shake-up of the scale envisaged by the FSA could save millions of pounds every year by reducing costs in abattoirs which are subsequently passed on to farmers.