ABHB and Frigorifico Silva receive technical visit from CNA

The Pampa Meat Program team, from the Brazilian Association of Hereford and Braford (ABHB), received last Tuesday (15) a visit from the technical inspection of the National Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock (CNA). The inspection was carried out by the Coordinator of Voluntary Traceability Adherence Protocols, Paulo Vicente Costa, at Frigorifico Silva, located in Santa Maria (RS), with the aim of observing the Hereford Beef certification processes, in accordance with the protocol approved by the CNA.

Accompanied by the Pampa Meat Program Manager, Fabiana Freitas, and the Management Platform Coordinator, Raoni Lopes, Costa checked in the morning the start of slaughter with the animals still in the pens and the work of the certifiers in checking the batches. Finally, they went inside the industrial unit, following the slaughter and deboning. The afternoon shift was dedicated to a document conference at the CNA management platform.

“We monitor the service of technical inspectors in checking the racial pattern, fat classification and dental chronology. During boning, we check the entry of qualified parts of animals previously classified at slaughter and the cleaning of cuts in accordance with commercial orders, cuts that received the Hereford Certified Beef certification seal”, reported Fabiana.

Voluntary Adhesion Protocols

By law, the CNA is responsible for managing voluntary adherence protocols, which aim to support official Brazilian certification, and it is necessary for the company interested in mentioning the bovine breed on the labels of its commercial products to have a protocol approved between the CNA and the respective association representing the breed in Brazil. The signed protocols indicate the guarantees that will be passed on to the Inspection Service, which will authorize the mention of Hereford and Braford breed carcasses on the labeling of companies that comply with the requirements contained in the protocols.

“The technical visit was very important”, reported Raoni Lopes, highlighting: “we were able to demonstrate the transparency and seriousness of the process of all elements that involve certification, from receiving the shipment of batches by producers to the output of the final product that will reach the consumer’s table.”