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New remedy against fraud in manure
To help entrepreneurs, transporters and intermediary organisations, a list has been drawn up showing the levels that the manure can contain. Industry association Cumela hopes to help entrepreneurs with this, in order to prevent fraud with manure.
"I did not know." It is an excuse when entrepreneurs defend themselves against irregularities surrounding the manure. This often concerns the fact that the levels in the manure do not correspond to the reality† To prevent this from happening more often in the future, a list has been compiled with the contents in the different types of manure.
What level is acceptable?
The list was drawn up through a collaboration between Cumela, LTO Nederland, the Producers Organization Pig Farming (POV), TLN and Rabobank. Experts helped to prepare the list, after which it was tested with a number of large fertilizer distributors. "With this list, entrepreneurs can see which levels are acceptable", says Hans Verkerk from Cumela.
Verkerk indicates that the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) also has a list, but that the maximum values on that list are higher than is seen in practice. In the future, the new list can also be linked to various fertilizer software, whereby, for example, a signal is issued when improbable levels appear.
Checks continue
Several checks have been carried out in the field in recent months. These were mainly aimed at discovering illegal manure processing, but attention was also paid to other matters. Most of the fines for such checks are often handed out because of administrative imperfections.
In the future, however, these checks will be further supplemented with random checks. "That is something that the sector is particularly in favor of," Verkerk said. The ultimate goal is to eliminate the abuses in the manure.
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Herman van den Pol
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