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Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, May 2023
These guidelines have been designed to inform plant managers, architects, engineers and consultants about the structural and equipment standards for export meat establishments in Australia. In this context, meat has the widest possible meaning, and includes not only meat and offals produced within abattoirs but also meat produced from field shot game animals processed through a game meat establishment, poultry meat produced in a poultry abattoir, rabbit and hare meat, and meat products derived from each of the above.
IMPORTANT
This document is no longer regulated by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and was archived in 2023. It is available upon request as it may provide useful guidance for the construction of export meat facilities.
Certain sections within the document have been replaced by the Export Meat Operational Guideline: Provisions for Commonwealth authorised officers at export registered establishment, these sections have been “greyed out”.
Readers are recommended to consult current building codes and relevant standards to ensure compliance with current requirements.
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