MPI: 30-year-old stock crate standard 'needs updating'

MPI: 30-year-old stock crate standard 'needs updating'
A stock truck waits to unload animals onto an export ship at Napier port. (Image: Getty)
Riley Kennedy
New Zealand’s livestock-transport industry could be in for a shake-up as the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) looks into changes to the nearly 30-year-old standard for stock crates.Crates on stock trucks are built according to the New Zealand Standard 5413: Code of practice for the manufacture and use of stock crates on heavy vehicles, which was developed in 1993.MPI’s director of animal health and welfare, Dr Carolyn Guy, said it needs updating.Meanwhile, Ia Ara Aotearoa Transporting NZ chief executive Nick Leggett told Busine...

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