ACGC News

ACGC News

The ACGC News is a one-page information sheet emailed to chicken growers and other interested parties every fortnight. It features such items as upcoming seminar details, available grant programmes, links to research updates and so on. You can be added to the distribution list by sending an email to australian.chicken@gmail.com. Here are the issues so far:

Free Range Egg and Poultry Australia (FREPA)

Free Range Egg and Poultry Australia (FREPA)

Many of Australia’s free range chicken meat farms are accredited by FREPA, a not-for-profit, member-based organisation established in 1993, and focused on independent accreditation of animal welfare, traceability and production standards of free range eggs and poultry. To be accredited, members must demonstrate an understanding of land care, environmental, biosecurity and animal welfare issues, and animal diseases.

ACGC Submission to Perishable Agricultural Goods Inquiry

ACGC Submission to Perishable Agricultural Goods Inquiry

In late 2020 the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) conducted the Perishable Agricultural Goods Inquiry, focusing on:

  • the relative power held by different suppliers in the markets for the supply of perishable agricultural goods (meats, fruit, vegetables, seafood, dairy products, eggs, mushrooms) and;
  • the practices and behaviours of suppliers in the markets for the supply of perishable agricultural goods and the effect those practices and behaviours may have on consumers and the broader economy.

The ACCC’s final report can be downloaded at Perishable agricultural goods inquiry report | ACCC and ACGC’s submission to the inquiry is available at  Australian Chicken Growers’ Council Limited (ACGC).pdf (accc.gov.au)

Primary Production & Processing Standard for Poultry Meat

Primary Production & Processing Standard for Poultry Meat

This Standard sets out a number of food safety requirements for the primary production and processing of poultry, and poultry carcasses and poultry meat for human consumption. At the primary production stage, businesses that produce poultry must implement measures to control the food safety hazards and must be able to trace their products. Businesses that process poultry must control their food safety hazards and must be able to trace their products.

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