Bord Bia insepctions

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Could anyone help

What do the Auditors look for? I think I have everything up to standard but is there any tips you could give to make sure everything will pass their 'standard'. What aspects are they sticky on?

E.g. Herd Register, Animal remedies, Clean cattle,

Cheers.

mossfort

the most important thing is your medicine cabinet and make sure you have no medicines past their expiry date because they check and record the batch number. they also look at your animal housing ,livestock,herd register and animal remedies. no a lot to worry about really.

dar31

cards are the big one as they can easily check these. make sure all your cards are present for inspection and that your register matches the cmms.
also if you have any cards belonging to dead animals. ie animal dead and sent to knackery but you still have the card.
double ups on cards as well.
think there is fairly hefty fines for even small mistakes mentioned above, usually if there is more than a certain % mistakes as of total cards.
from what ive heard nearly 80% of the time is spent on these.
have heard of some inspectors not even looking at farm, if its all 100% on paper

Follow the Plan

Thanks guys,

I have one problem. While I was preparing for this I noticed that I made a mistake registering and I have 2 calves tagged 1 number below wat i actually have them registered as e.g. tag 789 registered as 790. An honest mistake but it's too late to rectify this for this inspection. Hopefully this won't feck me up.

Nerveracking stuff for me anyway.

Indubitable

I had cattle missing tags and i heard down the grapevine that the inspection was going to be in two days. There was no way the tags would be delivered on time so i sent away an application for the tags and told them i had and they said it was fine. i guess it varies from inspector to inspector though.

dar31

sorry miss read thread heading.
usually no problems with bord bia inspections just a formallity really
as for wrong tag reg have the paper work done up for correction and present, show them it was an honest mistake and you are going about correcting it.

if you have less than 10% of the herd missing one tag then you are ok

Follow the Plan

Everything 100% Thanks lads.:)

lifelover2006

Follow the Plan wrote: »

Could anyone help

What do the Auditors look for? I think I have everything up to standard but is there any tips you could give to make sure everything will pass their 'standard'. What aspects are they sticky on?

E.g. Herd Register, Animal remedies, Clean cattle,

Cheers.

you need to have lots of tea, biscuits and you definitely need to know a bit about football 'cos it was all my bord bia inspector seemed to be interested in. oh, and it helps to have the auld herd register near by too as yer man likes to be able to write down he saw it...........

bord bia is some joke of a racket - talk about giving jobs for the boys.