He National Meat Institute (INAC) removed 43 butcher shops from their recordswhich implies that these businesses cannot operate in the domestic market.
As explained to The Observerthe butcher shops already discharged are in a first zone where the visits have ended (there were two visits to each butcher shop) to exhort about the regularizations and the expiration of deadlines.
Those 43 butcher shops They are from Maldonado, Canelones, Rocha and Coloniawith the highest amount in the first two of those four departments.
Following the changes implemented at the time, there are electronic guides for meat transactions and if the butcher shops and poultry shops are not in the Supply Registration and Management System, they cannot receive merchandise.
Previously, it was pointed out, in the interior of the country the authorization of butcher shops was decided by the municipalities, but since 2021 by law that power passed into the hands of INAC.
The institute also pointed out that the 43 deregistered businesses were controlled within the framework of the actions being carried out by INAC to regularize, formalize and develop the formal commercial meat market in the country.
Program I comply
Yo Cumplo is an INAC program in which all butcher shops included in the Single National Registry of Meat Companies (Runec) participate, which allows access to benefits such as training of qualified operators and promotion and promotion of soft loans for the readjustment of machinery or facilities . Consumers can verify the registration of the butcher shop through a QR code included in the graphic material that INAC provides in recognition of the authorization of the trade.
The explained enterprise is supported by the powers that the institute has to guarantee the quality and safety of meat products offered to Uruguayan consumers throughout the national territory.
The butcher shops and poultry shops that have not regularized their situation in relation to the new regulations can receive heavy fines, suffer a partial or permanent closureit was expressed, therefore those who have not done so are urged to formalize the trade, for which The process can be started by accessing this link.
