This year’s Meat Inspection and Quality Assurance National Conference included speakers from Australia and New Zealand, delivering on the latest developments in QA programs, meat microbiology, animal welfare, animal health and regulatory arrangements.

The conference was a huge success as it was the first time this conference had reached 100 people in total, including delegates, speakers, sponsors and exhibitors. Thank you to everyone who attended the conference and making it so successful.

Presentations

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Day 1

John Langbridge, AQIS: AQIS and the winds of change

Majella Furey, NCS International: Ethical auditing into the future

Ian Jenson, MLA: New results, new services and new products from MLA

Alison Small, CSIRO & Ian Jenson, MLA: Shelf-life of vacuum packed beef and lamb

Alison Small, CSIRO: The European Standard for animal welfare in meat processing plants

Clive Richardson, MINTRAC: Nationally standardised meat inspection training

Andrew Little, AUS-MEAT Limited: Foreign material and loose items in product

Mary Western, NZFSA: Transport of export products

Ira Stapp, AsureQuality Ltd: Monitoring and auditing meat inspection performance in New Zealand

Day 2

Conrad Blaney & John Dorian, AMIC: Operational and environmental risk is coming to a processing facility near you

Mary Western, NZFSA: True risk versus perceived risk

Michelle Edge, VIC DPI: Benchmarking animal welfare and the revised AMIC Standards

Clive Richardson & Jenny Kroonstuiver, MINTRAC: MINTRAC projects in 2009/10 that assist or impact on QA and Meat Inspection practitioners in the meat industry

Dr Lorna Citer, Animal Health Australia: The results of the electronic capture of endemic diseases information at processing works

Majella Furey, NCS International: Why companies are still getting it wrong when preparing for an audit

Andrew Bell, AsureQuality Ltd: Added value services to New Zealand’s meat industry