date:May 18, 2012
additional annual audit specifically focusing on animal welfare compliance and develop a sanctions policy to address any non-compliance with these requirements.
Animal welfare organisations claimed the new measures were just asmokescreen, and urged the government to implement mandatory CCTV surveillance in all abattoirs.
Hodgkinson added that the investigation of Hawkesbury Valley Meat Processors, the western Sydney abattoir whose employees were shown bashing pigs several times in the head