PNS-BAFPS 83-2009

The Philippine National Standard on Beef primal cuts was prepared by the Bureau of

Agriculture and Fisheries Product Standards (BAFPS) in collaboration with a multistakeholder

Technical Working Group (TWG) created per Department of Agriculture

Special Order No. 99 series of 2008, dated 29 January 2008. The proposed

document was presented and reviewed during public consultations conducted in the

cities of Cagayan de Oro, Cebu and Quezon. Comments gathered during the public

consultations and from various stakeholders were carefully evaluated by the TWG

and included accordingly in the final version of this document.

This document aims to provide a standard commodity classification system for

uniform primal cuts of beef carcasses to meet the needs and requirements of en