FSA Decision On Meat Controls

Written by Mark O'Brien

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has made a decision to not go ahead with plans to increase meat control charges. The FSA will proceed with a new system of charging based on the time cost of the inspection process but the proposed hike of 4% for the official UK controls will not be introduced. The National Farmers Union (NFU) livestock board chairman Mr Alistair Mackintosh said that the NFU supported the new system of calculating charges which should give businesses more power to reduce their overheads.

"This is the right decision. We were concerned that any additional costs could have had an impact on the operational viability of meat plants and, as a result, the whole production chain because any increase would inevitably been passed back down the chain." NFU livestock board chairman Alistair Mackintosh.

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