BMC gets greenlight to EU

In a statement released yesterday, BMC announced that the Department of Veterinary Services approved the slaughter plant, cutting plant and cold stores at the Lobatse abattoirs for exportation of meat to  local, regional and EU markets by the 6th of July.After inspections conducted by the European Union's Food and Veterinary Office (FVO) and Botswana's Department of Veterinary Services (DVS), the BMC was in 2010 barred from exporting to the EU until technical and compliance issues revealed by the inspections were properly addressed.

Although it has been approved for local and regional markets, the Francistown plant is still under inspection for the EU market licence.BMC has forecasted a loss of P77 million for the current financial year following the consecutive recorded losses of P107 million in 2009, P88 million in 2010 and P206 million in 2011.