EXPORT MEAT

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32219, 11 February 1970, Page 18

EXPORT MEAT

Call To Meet Standards

(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Feb. 9. ! No-one connected with i New Zealand’s export meat industry need fear for their ! livelihood if they all worked i together to meet the stan- 1 ! dards of hygiene set by over- ( [seas markets, the Minister of ■ ! Agriculture (Mr Carter), said I today. ! “Countries all over the i world are adopting more! | stringent standards of meat! hygiene, and those with the] ! toughest requirements are I often those with the most re- ! warding market,” he said. ! I “New Zealand’s meat export; I industry is making every : I effort to 'find as wide a range ! of markets as possible, but at (the present time the United! ! States market is a most attract tive one. I ."America has one set of. standards for all meat! 'hygiene. The Wholesome Meat Act of 1967 states that: all meat, whether processed within the United States or 'overseas, must be produced 'under standards at least equal' Ito the minimum set by the Federal Government.” Mr Carter was replying to' a comment by the national secretary of the New Zealand Freezing Workers' Association (Mr F. E. McNulty). Mr McNulty said in Christ-: church on Saturday that there was danger that men working at 16 export works in the country would lose, their jobs if the works weroj stopped from shipping meat to the United Slates,