Stop Potential BSE (Mad Cow) Beef Imports to Australia

[mick457]

Originally Posted by deanp100

Speaking from experience in meat import matters, this sort of proposed import happens an awful lot. A country puts pressure on a govt asking for an import protocol to allow free trade for something they want to sell. Our risk assessment guys look at it and say" Yes you can bring it in providing you provide enough documentation. This documentation usually needs to be endorsed by the exporting country authorities. We may ask for the meat to be certified that there have been no cases of BSE in the UK for 10 years prior to export. No UK vet will certify to it, so it never happens. However we have done our part by offering an import protocol. The same thing happened a few years ago with Thailand chicken. AQIS asked that it was certified to be cooked until it was charcoal. Exporter said"We can't do that, it will be ruined. AQIS says" Sorry we tried to help you. When you can make it charcoal we will talk. Same thing for bananas etc. I wouldn't be worried about it. The risk assessment team are not idiots. I know some of them and they are good old school, very experienced vets.

being a butcher and worked in plenty of export boning and slaughter floors of the abs i no wat its like, with any luck aqis will take a good look at it and go this is Sh## beef and send it back, i do it all the time im butcher shops funny as ****ing off the whole salers

ud be susprised wat doesnt make it off a kill floor and into a boning room

[GasoLane]

Originally Posted by My poor XF

We are also unlikely to have the quarantine measures in place to detect a diseased carcass ( japan checks every single carcass), all this on top of our inadequate labling laws which means your next meat pie could say made in australia, yet contains contaminated meat from Canada or the us.

Yeah but Meat pies only have to contain 25% 'meat' which can be anything from Camel to Chicken.
And the National Farmers Federation don't seem to concerned about importing foreign meat.

[Kamshaaft]

^You need a Parker's Pie.

Or Jesters. Whatever happened to Jester's? I loved their jaffle pies.

[Yellow_Festiva]

If this in any way causes our outgoing meat to be deemed less safe, or not up to the standard it is now it will be a disgrace.

Aussie beef is known the world over as being some of the best in the world. Go to any overseas supermarket / restaurant etc and the majority of them will have 'Australian Beef' for sale at a premium to the locally sourced beef.

Camel isn't too bad by the way ;)