The industry has been unofficially told that the Audit Costs will be similar to a Butchers Shop at $130 per visit. It is difficult to see this as Yabby Growing businesses are bigger more complex and safer but the Act could not be conceivable administered for compliance in under an hour.
The Coles Myer major meat supplier has about 30,000 acres of land in West Vic. They are audited and licensed through LPA for $120 annually The inputs of truckloads of grain a day and hay of feedstuffs to cattle and sheep are higher in residues than anything currently used in the yabby growing industry.
Even if a private grower sells 2000 prime lambs a year LPA audits are less than $50 annually.
Any person can get a food license to buy and cook anything including yabbies from a local council for $170 annually including compliance audits of their template food safety plan.
A food safety program for the dairy industry is $200 annually in NSW similar in Vic including audits.
Yabby farmers in SA currently pay a 1 off fee of $approx 115 for an Aquaculture Licence.
