The Federation of Argentine Regional Refrigeration Industries (FIFRA) has issued a statement warning that they will not receive property and will not work refusal at the start of the sale in pieces from this Tuesday in place of the historic half-carcass, and there may be a shortage of meat in the coming days.
“Fifra communicates that in a meeting held with the members of the rooms that make up Cafrisa, Afic and Cicer who will not receive funding from Monday and there will be no slaughtering or distribution of meat from Tuesday for the validity of the legislation on chopping and lack of authorization to use mechanical unloading means “, the text points out.
Given this disruption, from Fifra, which accounts for 30% of the national massacre, warned him the meat may be missing in the provinces of Entre Ríos, Santa Fe and Córdoba, the provinces in which they provide services. “In the cold rooms there is not much broth. If the measure is prolonged for a few days, it is possible that it will happen”, indicated by Fifra, adding that the refrigerators of Tucumán, Catamarca, Mendoza, Santiago del Estero and Corrientes also adhere . .
As confirmed by the president of Fifra, Sebastián Bendoyan, the shutdown of the refrigerators will be indefinite. “We presented verbally and a signed document, but we never got a concrete answer to our claim, which is the mechanical exhaust,” he told Radio Cologne.
Internal market participants have long tried to stop the measure. The directors of the Argentine Chamber of Slaughterers and Suppliers (Camya) informed the Minister of Economy, Serge Massalast Tuesday in General Las Heras – when he announced a program to promote corn and soybean planting – approaching the official to explain why they don’t want it to be marketed in the courts and sand allows the unloading of the half carcases by mechanical meansbetter known as “the stroller”.
Among the arguments to ask that the system not go ahead, they state that “most of the slaughterhouses They do not have adequate facilities for cutting half carcasses.and that the deadlines established for its adaptation were not respected due to the high cost and complexity of the works to be carried out and for reasons unrelated to the sector, such as the financing of the works promised by the government which was not made effective “.
On the other hand, there are exporting refrigerators, who are in favor of the measure. According to a statement by the Consorcio de Frigoríficos Exportadores ABC, the quartering offers health benefits avoiding the dragging of the flesh, and also allows a better traceability of each piece extend the guarantees to consumers. “Marketing through half of the livestock means that the meat is exposed to contamination with pathogenic bacteria, such as Escherichia coli, which can cause serious illness, especially in children,” they warned from the chamber. The measure improves market efficiency, favors workers, helps improve health security, avoids wasting 10% of the product, as happens with half of beef, and improves the offer for businesses and consumers “, they added.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Agriculture published this Friday in the Official Gazette the regulation corresponding to the form of traceability that will be implemented from the entry into force of the cut, and in this process, as detailed, The characteristic seals that many slaughterhouses used to stamp on the meat should be replaced by printed labels that contain all the corresponding information for each cut of meat.. To adapt to this procedure, indicated rule, the establishments will have 180 days at their disposal.
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The State will monitor compliance with the law through the Agricultural Trade Control Directorate and the Ministry of Labor. According to Luciano Zarich, Undersecretary for the Agricultural Markets of the Nation, we work on unloading trucks, take pictures and write documents if it is verified that the half carcasses are lowering to the shoulder and, in this case, the trucks must return to the factory to carry out the corresponding chopping.
Source: Clarin
