The European Commission’s health and safety agency has found most measures taken by Canadian officials to address issues raised during a previous audit have not worked.
The DG Sante audit in September 2022 checked the implementation of actions in response to a previous visit in 2019 on bovine and pig
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Two audits by the European Commission’s health and safety body have looked at meat controls in Uruguay and France. The audit reports have been released recently.
The virtual audit by DG Sante in Uruguay in June 2021 covered beef and sheep meat for export to Europe.
A previous audit in
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A follow-up audit in Poland of meat controls has found the situation has gotten better but there is still room for improvement.
The audit in March and April 2019 by DG Sante, the European Commission’s unit for food safety and health, covered the official controls over slaughter of bovines and
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A European Commission audit of Polish meat controls after an abattoir was filmed slaughtering sick cows has found the system was “ineffective” as a deterrent.
The audit in Poland from Feb. 4 to 8, 2019 took place in the context of a “crisis situation”, according to DG Sante, the unit
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