1. Reasons for Amendment
This amendment aims to revise related provisions in conformity with the improvement of regulations to revitalize the livestock industry and strengthen its competitiveness, such as allowing livestock products and sealed foods to be stored together in storage facilities for meat sales that handled only packaged meat, re-arrange the standards for recalled livestock products to strengthen the safety management of livestock products, and improve and complement a number of shortcomings that have emerged in the operation of the current system.
2. Major Provisions
A. Allow processed meat products made by the instant meat sales and processing business to be sold to food service business places (Attached Table 13).
B. Allow thawing and supplying frozen meat upon a request by food manufacturing/processing business and food service business operators, and allow temporal refrigerated storage for cutting chilled meat (Attached Tables 12 and 13).
C. In cases of jointly operating a meat sales business and an instant meat sales and processing business in one store, alleviate standards for the separation and division of facilities, and in cases of jointly operating a meat packaging business and a food manufacturing and processing business, allow the facilities to be used jointly (Attached Table 10).
D. Allow sealed livestock products and sealed food products to be stored together in storage facilities of a meat sales business that only distributes packaged meat (Attached Table 10).
E. In cases where an edible egg collection and sales business operator records and manages the contents to be recorded in the edible egg transaction and disposal statement using the history management system, exempt the entity from the obligation to record the statement, and allow recording the mixing ratio only for major raw materials when reporting on manufacturing items (Attached Table 13, Attached Form 28).
F. Reasonably arrange livestock product sanitation education, such as abolishing the training for inspecting employees and allowing business entities to conduct employee training autonomously (Articles 49, 50, and 50-2, Attached Tables 12 and 13).
G. Exclude from the obligation to keep the slaughter inspection certificate at the distribution/sale stage for livestock products subject to homebred traceability under the Cattle and Beef Traceability Act (Attached Table 13).
H. Allow selling eggs that have been directly sorted and packaged by an edible egg sorting and packaging business operator, not through a separate livestock product sales business, and allow sorted and packaged eggs to be repackaged (Attached Tables 2-4 and 12).
I. Strengthen sanitation management in the livestock product distribution process, such as reorganizing the standards for recalled livestock products and clarifying the requirements for an edible egg sorting and packaging business operator for safe egg management (Attached Tables 11, 12, and 14-3).
J. Improve and complement a number of shortcomings that have emerged in the operation of the current system, such as clarifying that livestock product sanitation supervisors must also issue certificates of removal when collecting livestock products for inspection (Article 26).
