The ruling commission of world food standards body Codex Alimentarius has approved a detailed and comprehensive code of hygienic practice for meat, officials told just-food.com.
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Tthe Codex secretariat said the meat code reflected a draft approved this February by the codex committee on meat hygiene.
Praised as a “new science-based meat-hygiene code”, it contains global guidelines on slaughtering, feeding and transporting livestock, as well as on pre-slaughter inspections, lairage conditions, hazard assessments, dressing meat, recall systems, meat handlers’ cleanliness, microbiological testing and special rules for game. The new umbrella standard replaces 10 individual codes on hygienic meat practices.
