Primary Products Inspectors

Key Tasks

• •Inspecting animals, plants and agricultural produce to identify product quality issues, and providing advice to producers
• •Auditing and monitoring quality procedures at farms and food handling and processing facilities to ensure compliance with required standards
• •Testing samples of produce for quality, size and purity
• •Ensuring that required standards of hygiene are observed at storage, processing and packing facilities and in transport vehicles
• •Advising primary producers on economic aspects of disease eradication and informing producers and the general public of the health implications of diseases and impurities
• •Advising on the identification of pests and diseases and on regulations pertaining to grading, packing and loading of products
• •Examining imported plants and animals, and products, such as timber, seeds and dried fruits, and making quarantine arrangements
• •Patrolling and investigating waterways for unlawful fishing activities and the removal of protected marine life
• •Educating, advising and providing information on a wide range of topics relating to fish and their protection
• •May initiate or assist in legal action to enforce regulations

Employment Projections to 2035