Tel: 028 9263 3017
Fax: 028 9263 3003

email: info@nifcc.co.uk

Address:
Operations Centre
Lissue House
31 Ballinderry Road
LISBURN
Northern Ireland
BT28 2SL

Beef And Lamb Certification

Approximately 77% of NIBL FQAS farm inspections currently result in some type of non-conformance which requires remedial action on behalf of the participant. At first glance, this seems to be a very high proportion of farm inspections during which non-conformances are identified. However, to put it into perspective, there are 96 individual Codes in the NIBL FQAS Product Standard. Therefore, with 23% of NIBL FQAS inspections demonstrating full compliance with all 96 Codes, this is a commendable achievement by these participants.

The 5 most commonly occurring non-conformances raised during NIBL FQAS farm inspections are as follows:

Code	Description	% of inspections
1.1	Revised Cattle & Sheep Welfare Codes not available	26
1.6	Common veterinary operations e.g. disbudding	22
2.14	Veterinary Medicine records	18
5.2	Repairs required to livestock buildings	15
3.16	Declaration of feed ingredients retained	11