2018 Eddie Andriessen award winner

Posted by AMPC Blogger on Oct 25, 2018

It was with great pleasure that Mark Richard, Meat Industry Teacher, TAFE Queensland was presented with the 2018 Eddie Andriessen Award at this year's Meat Inspection and Quality Assurance (MI&QA) Conference in Surfers Paradise.

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Topics: Awards, mintrac, training, AMIC, MI&QA

LambEx 2018 Recap

Posted by AMPC Blogger on Aug 17, 2018

AMPC had the opportunity to attend the 2018 LambEx conference in Perth last week, alongside our exhibition partners AMIC, MINTRAC and AUS-MEAT. It was great to work alongside these important industry bodies, sharing some of our research highlights and facilitating valuable conversations with AMPC and AMIC members about industry issues.

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Topics: 2018, agriculture, AMPC, red meat, lamb, lambex2018, sheep, mintrac, ausmeat, AMIC

Nominations open for 2018 Eddie Andriessen Award

Posted by AMPC Blogger on Aug 1, 2018

Nominations are now open for the 2018 Eddie Andriessen Award, recognising significant contribution to Meat Inspection and Quality Assurance (MI&QA) in Australia in areas such as R&D, training or professional development of meat safety/QA personnel in the Australian meat industry.

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Topics: Awards, AMPC, mintrac

'Meat Industry Essentials' online training videos

Posted by AMPC Blogger on Jul 12, 2018

AMPC and MINTRAC have recently completed work on a series of short, sharp online videos which can be used by red meat processing companies and trainers to support induction, careers promotion, commencement of training, and refresher training. The videos are now available in five different languages (Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, Filipino and Portuguese).

Each video is accompanied by worksheets, also available in multiple languages (contact MINTRAC at mintrac@mintrac.com.au). 

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Topics: AMPC, red meat, animal welfare, lamb, sheep, beef, mintrac, training

MINTRAC Meat Micro Workshop 2018

Posted by AMPC Blogger on Apr 23, 2018

If you’re interested in upskilling your knowledge on microbiological meat testing, be sure to register to attend MINTRAC’s Meat Micro workshop in Wagga Wagga from May 24-25.

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Topics: AMPC, mintrac, training, workshop