AS 4696-2007

1 - AS 4696-2007 HYGIENIC PRODUCTION AND TRANSPORTATION OF MEAT AND MEAT PRODUCTS FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION
5 - CONTENTS
6 - PREFACE
9 - PART 1 – INTRODUCTION
9 - 1 PRELIMINARY
16 - 2 APPLICATION
17 - PART 2 – WHOLESOMENESS AND OPERATIONAL HYGIENE
17 - 3 MANAGEMENT OF WHOLESOMENESS
20 - 4 OPERATIONAL HYGIENE
22 - 5 CROSS-CONTAMINATION
26 - PART 3 – SLAUGHTER AND DRESSING OF ANIMALS
26 - 6 THE SUPPLY AND ADMISSION OF ANIMALS FOR SLAUGHTER
29 - 7 ANIMAL WELFARE
31 - 8 ANTE-MORTEM INSPECTION AND DISPOSITION
34 - 9 SLAUGHTER AND DRESSING
37 - 10 POST-MORTEM INSPECTION AND DISPOSITION
40 - PART 4 – PROCESSING
40 - 11 CHILLING AND FREEZING
42 - 12 THAWING, TEMPERING, BONING AND OTHERPROCESSING OF RAW MEAT
44 - 13 FURTHER PROCESSING
47 - PART 5 – PACKAGING, STORAGE AND HANDLING
47 - 14 PACKAGING
48 - 15 STORAGE AND HANDLING
50 - PART 6 – IDENTIFICATION, TRACEABILITY, INTEGRITY AND RECORD KEEPING
50 - 16 IDENTIFICATION, TRACEABILITY AND INTEGRITY
52 - 17 ANIMAL FOOD AND PHARMACEUTICAL MATERIAL
54 - 18 RECORD KEEPING
55 - PART 7 – PREMISES, EQUIPMENT AND ESSENTIAL SERVICES
55 - 19 PREMISES AND EQUIPMENT
57 - 20 HYGIENE AND SANITATION FACILITIES
59 - 21 ESSENTIAL SERVICES
62 - PART 8 – TRANSPORTATION OF MEAT AND MEAT PRODUCTS
62 - 22 MANAGEMENT OF WHOLESOMENESS
63 - 23 OPERATIONAL HYGIENE
64 - 24 WHOLESOMENESS AND IDENTIFICATIONDURING TRANSPORT
66 - 25 MEAT TRANSPORT VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT
67 - SCHEDULE 1 – PERSONAL HYGIENE
70 - SCHEDULE 2 – PROCEDURES FOR POST-MORTEM INSPECTION
74 - SCHEDULE 3 – ANTE-MORTEM AND POST-MORTEM DISPOSITIONS

Sets out requirements for hygienic production and transportation of meat and meat products for human consumption that are derived from animals of the bovine, bubaline, camelidae, caprine, cervidae, ovine, porcine and soliped species slaughtered other than in wild state.

Originated as AS 4460-1997, AS 4461-1997, AS 4462-1997 and AS 4463-1997.
Previous edition AS 4696-2002.
Second edition 2007.