proposed amendments of the processing of livestock products act the mifaff proposed the amendment of the processing of livestock products act. this draft reflects the policies incorporated in livestock products safety initiatives such as extension of the scope of haccp accreditation and mandatory periodic education for veterinary inspectors and includes complementary measures against the defects in existing regulations and change of the difficult terms used in the text into plain expressions change of the title of the act to the act on the sanitary management of livestock products 1 extending the scope of haccp accreditation for broadened application of haccp throughout the entire process of production from farm to retail sales particularly to include egg grading and packing centres hatcheries etc. and 2 introducing a new rule of unannounced audit system which will replace existing periodic audit system and will be enforced by national and or provincial government clearly defining an importers obligation to declare imports to the director general of national veterinary research and quarantine service in case where the import is intended for further processing such as the ingredients for the importers own products clarifying the conditions and procedures for imposing and lifting an import suspension . import suspension may be placed on the livestock products from specific countries or regions from which the livestock products are identified or suspected to have hazard and . import suspension shall be lifted if the products are identified to have no health hazards or the health hazards are recognized not to exist any longer or eliminated as a result of investigation into the source of hazards and corrective measures presented by either the importer or the government of exporting country. introducing several new rules on the designated private inspection laboratories such as 3-year terms of validity restricted application for re-designation of the laboratories whose designation has been cancelled and the obligation on the laboratory personnel to be professionally trained every year clarifying the specific procedures for business closedown which may be ordered by the government to ensure its effectiveness introducing the new provision to exempt from administrative punishment for the businesses that have appropriately implemented recall procedures on domestic or imported hazardous livestock products and providing a new rule stipulating that the relevant authority itself may make an announcement on violation and order the business to make its violation known to the public