Traduction de «Performing HACCP inspections for aquatic organisms » (Anglais → Français) :

(Return tabled) Question No. 286 Mr. Alex Atamanenko: With regard to the horse slaughter industry in Canada: (a) does the government know whether third party monitoring of video footage is occurring at Viandes Richelieu and Bouvry Exports and, if so, (i) what is the monitoring criteria, (ii) who is monitoring the footage, (iii) what actions, if any, have been taken as a result of observations, (iv) is footage monitoring to be a daily practice at this and other Canadian horse slaughter plants, (v) how many hours have been monitored, (vi) is footage archived and for how long, (vii) does the recording continuously loop over previous footage ...[+++]; (b) which tissue types and/or bodily fluids are targeted by the government when testing for phenylbutazone and other drugs in horsemeat, (i) what percentage of drug testing is performed on equine organs (particularly kidney and liver) as opposed to other tissues, such as muscle, (ii) what is the exact methodology and what are the specific testing mechanisms used to detect phenylbutazone and other drugs in horsemeat; (c) what surveys or studies has the government undertaken or relied on to determine the number of overall horse owners and keepers that have administered to horses under their care, even once in the horse's lifetime, substances that are banned for human consumption, in (i) Canada, (ii) the United States (US); (d) what surveys or studies encompassing the overall horse population has the government undertaken or relied on to determine the percentage of veterinarians who routinely administer to horse patients under their care, at any time in the horse's lifetime, substances that are banned for use in food animals, in (i) Canada, (ii) the US; (e) what was the ratio between the number of horses and the number of prescriptions of substances banned for use in food animals at any time in their lifetime, issued by veterinarians to the overall horse population in (i) Canada, (ii) the US; (f) what were the results of European ...

It concludes that current meat inspection systems can be improved when supplemented with information from the complete production chain, use of the Hazard Analysis, Critical Control Point (HACCP) principles in the slaughter plant and microbiological monitoring of faecal indicator organisms.

It concludes that current meat inspection systems can be improved when supplemented with information from the complete production chain, use of the Hazard Analysis, Critical Control Point (HACCP) principles in the slaughter plant and microbiological monitoring of faecal indicator organisms.

All of the coalitions' platforms are based on historical experience that has proven that in order to ensure people who are working in large, powerful organizations such as government institutions follow the rules and perform, the rules must have no loopholes; secondly, that the institutions must operate as transparently as possible; thirdly, as Mr. McCandless has set out, that there must be standards in terms of goals and objectives that are measurable, so that performance can be measured; that enforcement agencies must be fully in ...[+++]dependent, well-resourced, and fully empowered, including having the power to penalize rule violators in significant ways, and must be conducting regular inspections and publicly reporting, of course; and finally, that whistle-blowers must be effectively protected.

Whereas, pursuant to existing Community and national legislation in the field of road and inland waterway transport, Member States perform checks, verifications and inspections relating to technical characteristics, authorizations and other documentation with which vehicles and inland waterway vessels must comply; whereas there will in general continue to be a need for such checks, verifications and inspections to prevent disruption of transport market organization and to en ...[+++]sure road and inland waterway safety;

Competition and choice have been rejected by the Blair government and it is attempting to achieve improvements in performance through government control and intervention, setting national standards for performance, using organizations like the Commission for Health Improvement to inspect and visit hospitals, driving up change through a number of new mechanisms like the moderization agency for the health service, which is there to i ...[+++]dentify and spread good practice and to overcome some of the variations in performance.