Meat and dairy processing
Meat and dairy processing factories manufacture products for local and international markets.
Meat and dairy processing factories manufacture products for local and international markets.
Meat processing plants process lamb, beef, veal, deer, and other animal related products such as hides, leather, and animal fat products. Approximately 80-90 % of beef and dairy products produced in Aotearoa are exported overseas.
Meat processing activities that significantly impact the environment require a Resource Consent. For example, a water permit for taking water and a discharge permit for discharging into water, the air, or on to land may be required.
Dairy factories manufacture products such as pasteurised milk, cream, butter, cheese, casein, whey, and milk powders.
Kaitiaki Tools will help you identify activities and environmental impacts specifically related to meat and dairy processing.
- Mitigation and best practice options
- What is Kaitiaki Tools?
- What is the proposed activity or industry?
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What impacts interest you?
- Chemical contamination
- Mitigation and best practice options
- Dissolved oxygen
- Infectious substances
- Instream barriers and altered water flow
- Modified habitat
- Nutrient overloading
- Sediment
- Temperature changes
- Water clarity
- Loss of riparian vegetation
- Mahinga kai - what species interests you?
- About the resource consent process
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Meat and dairy processing activities
Meat and dairy products are processed in dairy factories, meat works, tanneries, and factories. -
Impacts of meat and dairy processing
What are the impacts of meat and dairy processing activities on water quality and mahinga kai? -
Mitigation and best practice options
Some simple steps to minimise the effects of meat and dairy processing activities on water quality and mahinga kai.