Mr. Brian Casey

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  sl.farmonline.com.au/news/state/livestock/sheep/abattoi - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/8/2008    Last Visited: 8/9/2008  

  Two weeks ago RH Woodward and Co had its licence suspended for not complying with PrimeSafe lamb branding procedures, Brian Casey, PrimeSafe chief executive, said.
  
  "Corrective actions were imposed and they had to remove the lamb brand from any lamb on their premises and they were not permitted to process lamb until they'd met the specifications outlined by PrimeSafe," Mr Casey said.
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  Mr Casey said that the abattoir would now be subject to inspection and audit on an increased basis to ensure it complied with procedures.

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  sl.farmonline.com.au/news/state/livestock/sheep/ban-lif - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/8/2008    Last Visited: 8/9/2008  

  In the week leading up to its resumption, RH Woodward and Co had its licence suspended for not complying with prime safe lamb branding procedures, according to Brian Casey, PrimeSafe chief executive.
  
  "Corrective actions were imposed and they had to remove the lamb brand from any lamb on their premises and they were not permitted to process lamb until they'd met the specifications outlined by PrimeSafe," Mr Casey said.
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  Mr Casey said that the abattoir will now be subject to inspection and audit by PrimeSafe on an increased basis to ensure their compliance with procedures.

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  Published on: 12/14/2008    Last Visited: 2/10/2009  

  "This poses a major risk to public health and under no circumstances should any person consume meat that is slaughtered at any place other than a licensed facility," PrimeSafe executive officer Brian Casey said.

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  Country News - McPherson Media Group - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/24/2004    Last Visited: 6/24/2004  

  PrimeSafe chief executive Brian Casey said from the point of harvest there were food safety issues that related to the potential contamination of products that needed to be managed.
  
  However, he would not comment on what the food safety issues were.
  
  "The yabby industry needs to understand that they are in the food industry," Mr Casey said.
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  Mr Casey said the most complex businesses were audited four times a year and gave the example that a butcher's shop took one to 11/2 hours to audit.

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  Growfish - Gippsland Aquaculture Industry Network... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/19/2004    Last Visited: 5/10/2006  

  "I don't think the changes have been dramatic at all," PrimeSafe chief executive Brian Casey says."We simply need to maintain appropriate standards."According to Casey, the live yabby industry has identified food safety risks in its production processes - justification, it would seem, for a food safety plan and audit.
  
  As for the seafood retailers, he confines himself to repeating the requirement that "every person in the red meat, seafood and poultry meat industries must meet suitable minimum standards".In the case of fresh seafood, he says, retailers "must prevent the public from handling whole fish, as a requirement of the food standards code".

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  Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division) - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/1/2004    Last Visited: 1/17/2006  

  Primesafe Chief Executive Brian Casey has now confirmed that Greg Williams will not be charged the $16,000 fee.
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  "Brian Casey has clearly stated that Greg will not need to register each property as long as he takes responsibility for the harvesting techniques used at each site," Mr Davis said.

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  bendigo.yourguide - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/20/2004    Last Visited: 8/20/2004  

  PrimeSafe chief executive officer Brian Casey said the visit was only a routine one.
  
  "PrimeSafe has never raided any aquaculture property and has no intention of raiding any property in the future," he said.
  
  "What PrimeSafe did was we visited the property.We would have thought that was an entirely appropriate way to introduce the new seafood safety requirements.Mr Casey would not comment on

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  bendigo.yourguide - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/11/2003    Last Visited: 12/11/2003  

  PrimeSafe chief executive officer Brian Casey confirmed the raid, but could not give details of the violations."I closed that business down in the interest of public health," he said."In order to open again, there are a number of things they need to do."When they have done those things, we will reassess it and, if satisfied, we will allow them to reopen."Under the Meat Industry Act, closing a business is the harshest penalty available to officers."Closing a premises in the interest of public health is the most severe action PrimeSafe can take as an authority," Mr Casey said."Anything else is action the courts take."He said the officers destroyed the meat by tipping dye on it."The meat in the shop was denatured and disposed of under our direction," he said."It is not able to be sold for human consumption."Mr Casey said the Act prevented him from releasing the specifics of the breaches.

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  bendigo.yourguide - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/11/2003    Last Visited: 12/13/2003  

  PrimeSafe chief executive officer Brian Casey confirmed the raid, but could not give details of the violations.
  
  "I closed that business down in the interest of public health," he said.
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  "Closing a premises in the interest of public health is the most severe action PrimeSafe can take as an authority," Mr Casey said.
  
  "Anything else is action the courts take."
  
  He said the officers destroyed the meat by tipping dye on it.
  
  "The meat in the shop was denatured and disposed of under our direction," he said."It is not able to be sold for human consumption."
  
  Mr Casey said the Act prevented him from releasing the specifics of the breaches.

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  Published on: 4/28/2004    Last Visited: 4/28/2004  

  PrimeSafe chief executive Brian Casey said the change was made after talking to yabby growers about their transport systems.
  
  "We talked about the nature of live product and the food safety risks," Mr Casey said.
  
  He said rules had been changed to allow producers to move food in other vehicles as long as the delivery process was covered under their own food safety plan.

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