2021 Volume 70 Issue 2 Pages 141-148
Government strategy has been to promote exports of meat products since the 1990 establishment of the beef export system to United States as one of the aggressive agricultural measures. Miyazaki Prefecture started to consider it necessary to introduce the HACCP international food sanitation management system into slaughterhouses and poultry plants other than certified export meat plants, and has been working on measures to ensure food sanitation management since the beef slaughter plant in Miyazaki was certified for export to the United States in 1990. As a result, the Meat Inspection Center (MIC) of Miyazaki Prefecture confirmed the introduction of the implementation of HACCP in all 5 slaughterhouses and 10 poultry plants in Miyazaki in January 2015. For proper maintenance of HACCP, it is important to carry out external verification by the Meat Sanitation Inspection Center in addition to voluntary internal verification and regular HACCP system reviews by the establishment.
In order to promote the external verification required for implementation of HACCP, future challenges will be indicated as the following: (1) human resource development of inspectors, (2) establishing an effective verification method, and (3) maintaining mutual discussion between the establishment and MIC, in addition to efficient and effective measures for implementing and maintaining HACCP by local governments.
