The Federation is working on measures which will mitigate the impact on cash and carry and delivered wholesalers where butchery departments produce waste.
The costs of separating animal waste from other waste (ie wrapping) and policing its journey to an incinerator or renderer could hit the industry from May 1, and, as you point out in your report of protests from the rest of the market, these disposal facilities are in very short supply.
We are working to ensure that the guidelines which will govern the implementation of the directive are based on common sense, especially in the light of other bureaucratic cost implications which afflict the wholesaler.
For smaller companies in our sector, the imposition of costs brought about by the current red tape regime is becoming unacceptable and the animal waste disposal regulation is just one more burden.
Costs imposed by this regime will inevitably be passed on to the independent retailer and caterer customers
who are already finding it difficult to compete as the market becomes more competitive.
Wholesalers and their customers do not enjoy a level playing field in either a commercial sense or a bureaucratic sense. Some wholesale operators are very large concerns, while others are smaller and often family businesses but they are all vulnerable proportionately.
We do not seek to escape regulations which protect the health of the public but we do expect their implementation to dovetail into existing practices at least cost. Every wholesaler I know follows standard hygiene disciplines and we do not need the heavy hand of Whitehall imposing itself again.
The costs of separating animal waste from other waste (ie wrapping) and policing its journey to an incinerator or renderer could hit the industry from May 1, and, as you point out in your report of protests from the rest of the market, these disposal facilities are in very short supply.
We are working to ensure that the guidelines which will govern the implementation of the directive are based on common sense, especially in the light of other bureaucratic cost implications which afflict the wholesaler.
For smaller companies in our sector, the imposition of costs brought about by the current red tape regime is becoming unacceptable and the animal waste disposal regulation is just one more burden.
Costs imposed by this regime will inevitably be passed on to the independent retailer and caterer customers
who are already finding it difficult to compete as the market becomes more competitive.
Wholesalers and their customers do not enjoy a level playing field in either a commercial sense or a bureaucratic sense. Some wholesale operators are very large concerns, while others are smaller and often family businesses but they are all vulnerable proportionately.
We do not seek to escape regulations which protect the health of the public but we do expect their implementation to dovetail into existing practices at least cost. Every wholesaler I know follows standard hygiene disciplines and we do not need the heavy hand of Whitehall imposing itself again.
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