ANALYSIS
Goods can be released to the market faster, allowing for lower handling, warehousing, and transport
costs.
This approach will also conserve agency resources.
By focusing their efforts on high risk consignments,
Efforts to Reduce....
they will be able to
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use their limited resources more efficiently. And by conducting fewer laboratory tests, they will save on testing, a cost initially borne by agencies.
“In the past, the inspection and sampling were
based solely on the experience of the inspector,”
says Mr. Colin Gazeley, a risk specialist who
has been working on the development of the
risk-based approach with the State Sanitary
and Health Inspectorate. “Now we are helping
to introduce a methodological, standardized
approach throughout the country, which will allow the inspectorate to focus on high-risk consignments and countries of origin in a targeted
manner, reducing the level of sampling by up to
50 percent and conducting the inspections in a
more effective manner. The inspectorate will be
able to use their staff resources more effectively and efficiently, reducing agency costs and at
the same time facilitating cross-border trade."
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