Meat industry
For further information on any of the Meat industry initiatives contact Rachel Kairuz – Senior Advisor, Industry Services on 1300 366 033 or via email.
Background
The Red Meat supply chain has adopted the GS1 standards for Numbering, Barcoding and Electronic messaging for specific red meat supply chain activities such as carton labelling, carcase ticketing and pallet labelling as well as electronic messaging for National Vendor Declarations (eDEC) and Electronic Meat Transfer Certificates (eMTC).
The diagram below shows the red meat supply chain for non-retail trade product and identifies each of the activities, what the relationship is of each of the activities and their respective importance along the supply chain.
Key Associations
- Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) provides R&D, market information and marketing to benefit the red meat industry. Meat and Livestock Australia Limited (MLA) is a producer-owned company that provides services to livestock producers, processors, exporters, foodservice operators and retailers. MLA has over 43,000 livestock producer ‘members’ who have stakeholder entitlements in the company.
- AUS-MEAT Limited incorporating AUS-MEAT Standards and AUS-MEAT Commercial Services, is responsible for establishing and maintaining National Industry Standards for Meat Production and Processing. AUS-MEAT is a product of, and is wholly owned by, the Australian meat and livestock industries.
- The Australian Meat Industry Council (AMIC) is the Peak Council that represents retailers, processors, exporters and smallgoods manufacturers in the post-farm-gate meat industry. As the Peak Council, the Australian Meat Industry Council confers with members, governments and industry groups to influence policy and provide technical and other advice to the industry.
More information
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Industry Initiatives
The Red Meat Supply Chain Committee, Representatives and Structure
“The role of the Red Meat Supply Chain Committee is to provide co-ordination and direction for the development and adoption of supply chain information standards and guidelines as they might apply to the Australian domestic and export meat and livestock supply chain.
The activities of the committee will be complementary to the systems standards, products and guidelines developed through AUS-MEAT and will focus on identification and information technologies and systems.”
The committee is made up of industry representative including:
- AUS-MEAT
- Australian Meat Industry Council
- Meat and Livestock Australia
- GS1 Australia
- Australian Quarantine Inspection Services
- Processors
- Producers
- Technicians
The structure of the committee:
Work to Date
To date the committee has produced the Australian Red Meat Numbering and Barcoding guidelines for non retail meat products, Message Implementation Guidelines, technical fact sheets, case studies, interactive CD’s and a cost benefit analysis relating to project outcomes.
Current Committee Activities
- Guide to Information Standards for the Australian Red Meat Industry
“The Guide to Information Standards for the Australian Red Meat Industry “ offers a high level overview of GS1 related projects, information on numbering and barcoding of carcase tickets, non retail variable measure cartons and bulk non-retail red meat products and pallet labels. It also explains electronic messaging for cattle and sheep National Vendor Declarations (NVDs) and for Meat Transfer Certificates (MTCs).
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[format: pdf - date: May 2007 - size: 951kb]
- Industry Rollout of the Electronic Meat Transfer Certificate (eMTC)
Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS) require that a Meat Transfer Certificate is completed every time export eligible meat is transferred from one registered establishment to another. This process can be quite time consuming.
An electronic version of the Meat Transfer Certificate has been developed by industry to provide a non-proprietary system based on international standards for the creation, printing, and electronically sending and receiving of Meat Transfer Certificates.
The eMTC has been developed by MLA with the assistance of AQIS, GS1 Australia, industry participants and export customers. This new system can be used free of charge by industry, provided they meet the necessary requirements.
In first half of 2007 the Red Meat Supply Chain committee conducted two industry workshops to rollout the eMTC. To learn about the eMTC, how it works, how to use it or to access presentation material from the launch visit the MLA website.
Information library
The following documents have been developed for the Australian Red Meat Industry.
Guidelines
Guide to Information Standards
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[format: pdf - date: May 2007 - size: 951kb]
Numbering and Barcoding
Numbering and Barcoding guidelines for Non-Retail Trade Items for the Australian Red Meat Industry.
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[format: pdf - date: February 2002 - size: 688kb]
Technical Fact Sheets
Numbering and barcoding for carcase tickets and wrapped non-retail red meat carcases
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[format: pdf - date: September 2007 - size: 122kb]
Numbering and barcoding for carton labels for carton and bulk non-retail red meat products
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[format: pdf - date: July 2007 - size: 243kb]
Numbering and barcoding for pallet labels for non-retail red meat products
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[format: pdf - date: July 2007 - size: 258kb]
eMessaging
Electronic messaging for cattle and sheep National Vendor Declarations (eDEC)
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[format: pdf - date: September 2007 - size: 973kb]
Electronic messaging for Meat Transfer Certificates MTCs (eMTC)
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[format: pdf - date: May 2007 - size: 630kb]
Events
Past Events
- The Electronic Meat Transfer Certificate (eMTC) was officially launched in Brisbane on the 28th of March. Thirty six industry personnel attended this meeting including processors, cold stores, system vendors and others.
download presentation.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)
For general questions regarding the GS1 standards or membership to GS1, please email GS1 Australia.
1. Who do I contact for further information?
GS1 Australia Customer Service Team on 1300 366 033 or using the contact us link from this website.
Case Studies
Electronic Meat Transfer Certificate (eMTC) could save meat industry millions
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[format: pdf - date: June 2007 - size: 236kb]
Cost Benefit Analysis
The cost benefit document reviews various project summaries and presents the cost benefit information from various projects.
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[format: pdf - date: September 2007 - size: 120kb]
Useful links
To learn more about Supply Chain Activities and Programs, visit the supply chain management section of Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) website.
Below is a list of Australian industry and other links you may find helpful:
