AIMS conference round-up: Meat inspection regime needs a complete overhaul

Regulation and demonstrating the meat sector’s environmental credentials were hot topics at the Association of Independent Meat Suppliers (AIMS) conference

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Meat inspection Modernising the meat inspection regime with a move to ‘intelligent regulation' is critical if the sector is to avoid becoming a ‘regulatory vassal state subservient to bureaucratic overlords'....

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