Transcript Working Party on Agricultural Quality Standards REPORT Specialized Section on Standardization of Meat Ian King (Chair) Sixty-ninth session WP.7 Geneva 4-6 November 2013

Working Party on Agricultural Quality
Standards
REPORT
Specialized Section on Standardization of Meat
Ian King (Chair)
Sixty-ninth session WP.7
Geneva 4-6 November 2013
Working Party on Agricultural Quality
Standards
Agenda Item 4
The Specialized Section on Standardization of Meat
• Report on Activities for 2013
• Revision of Standards and references
• New Standards
• Future work
Specialized Section
on Standardization of Meat
It is a pleasure to report on a highly productive year with
renewed interest and commitment from countries all over
the world.
The interest stemmed from a goal to revise one older
standard and adopt three new standards in time for the
texts to be considered by the Specialized Section and
submitted for adoption by the Working Party.
Specialized Section
on Standardization of Meat
One Rapporteurs meetings were held during the year:
• UNECE- Meeting of Bureau and Experts (Rapporteurs) on
Porcine Meat and Retail Meat Cuts, Warsaw, Poland, 4-5 July
2013
The meeting was organized immediately prior to the Specialized
section meeting in Geneva to save costs for delegates.
The Secretariat attended the meeting.
This helped to expedite the review process by introducing
efficiencies in recording, reporting and the development of
recommendations.
Custodianship Responsibility
• Rapporteurs: review and update the Standards
(revision cycle every 3 years).
• Specialized Section: has an important role in
maintaining and updating the Standards to remain
current and relevant to trading practice.
• The Secretariat: plays a key role in attending and
recording recommendations from all Rapporteurs
meetings (policy).
Specialized Section
on Standardization of Meat
Documentation: Report of the twenty-second session
Geneva 8-10 July 2013 (ECE/TRADE/C/WP.7/GE.11/2013/2)
The Specialized Section submits for adoption the revised standard
for porcine meat (ECE/TRADE/C/WP.7/2012/4)
– Reviewed during the year by all delegations, discussed at the
rapporteurs meeting in Poland (including cut demonstrations in a
processing plant)
The Chair thanked the Polish delegation for organizing a successful
rapporteurs meeting and study tour to a meat processing facility
UNECE Standards Future Work
2013 Activities
The Specialized Section submits for adoption three new
Standards:
(a) Rabbit meat - Rapporteur China with collaboration of
European producing countries and USA
(b) Deer meat - Rapporteur Russia with collaboration of New
Zealand and Australia
(c) Retail meat cuts – Rapporteur USA
Note: The draft standard for processed poultry meat could not
be finalized by the deadline of 22 August 2013 and several
delegations asked for further consultations. It will be submitted in
2014.
UNECE Standards Future Work
2013 Activities
The Specialized Section adopted:
• the revised Codification system and Reference
addresses as separate documents as a generic
reference document for addresses and codification
systems for all meat standards
The Chair thanked GS1 for their contribution to the
revised codification system document
UNECE Standards Future Work
FUTURE WORK
The Specialized Section continues to work on:
• Standard for Processed poultry meat
• Adding veal and lamb cuts to the new retail meat
cuts standard
• Revising the Standards for Goose meat, Duck meat
and Edible Meat Co-products (regular revision cycle)
UNECE Standards Future Work
FUTURE WORK
China proposed to host an expert and rapporteurs
meeting on:
– Beef and Ovine meat (training session for participants)
– Rabbit meat (study tour and cut demonstrations)
– Revision of UNECE Standards for Goose and Duck meat
To educate and inform about the work of the group
and broaden the scope of its work, a proposal was
made to organize a 1 day meat symposium in May
2014.
Key Contacts
UNECE Specialized Section on Standardization of Meat
Chairman
Ian King – Australia
[email protected]
Vice-Chairman
Craig Morris – United States of America
[email protected]
UNECE Secretariat
Liliana Annovazzi-Jakab
[email protected]