485. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of unannounced inspections in the 23 meat plants with mechanical grading to date in 2020; the corresponding figure for the nine plants without mechanical grading; the number of instances of factories being instructed to revert to manual classification when a machine was found to be working outside of tolerance; if he will he review the policy of not manually regrading carcasses which have already gone through the mechanical grading machines in advance of identifying a breach of the tolerances; the accuracy rate for conformation and for fat in 2019 and to date in 2020; his plans to review the current legislation which provides for an accuracy rate of 60% when the machines can easily operate at an accuracy rate of 90% for both conformation and fat cover; if he will provide the reference for the legislation in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42721/20]

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485. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of unannounced inspections in the 23 meat plants with mechanical grading to date in 2020; the corresponding figure for the nine plants without mechanical grading; the number of instances of factories being instructed to revert to manual classification when a machine was found to be working outside of tolerance; if he will he review the policy of not manually regrading carcasses which have already gone through the mechanical grading machines in advance of identifying a breach of the tolerances; the accuracy rate for conformation and for fat in 2019 and to date in 2020; his plans to review the current legislation which provides for an accuracy rate of 60% when the machines can easily operate at an accuracy rate of 90% for both conformation and fat cover; if he will provide the reference for the legislation in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42721/20]

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