date:May 18, 2012
is year.
The new animal welfare package announced today by the NSW Government will ensure the following measures will be imposed as a condition of the abattoirs licence:
all domestic abattoirs, by 1 January 2013, are required to designate a trained Animal Welfare Officer to be on the premises while processing is occurring. Only employees that have been trained in the relevant component of the of the MTM11 Australian Meat Industry Training Package will be eligible to be a designated Animal We