Safety
“Safety” is Meltique Beef’s priority and promise to customers.
AUSTRALIAN BEEF
Meltique Beef’s raw material is %100 Australian export grade beef sourced from carefully selected abattoirs throughout the country.
FREE FROM MAJOR DISEASES IN CATTLE
Supplying over 100 markets globally, Australia is well known as one of the safest beef exporting countries in the world.
Australia is internationally recognised of being free of all major epidemic diseases of cattle, including Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD).

ACCREDITED BY THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY AUTHORITIES
To be an export facility in Australia you must hold a Licence to Export which is approved by the Department of Agriculture.
Hokubee Australia (Hastings Food Processing) operates using the following standards and participates in audits from these standards:
- Department of Agriculture Approved Arrangements
- AUS-MEAT / AUS-QUAL, auditing boning and packaging and Non Packer Exporter
- BRC Global Standards (British Retail Consortium) auditing Quality Systems/HACCP, which includes our own in house laboratory.
As Hokubee Australia produces Halal products we are certified by SICHMA (Supreme Islamic Council of Halal Meat in Australia).
Every batch of Meltique product is microbiologically tested and must pass our strict critical limits before it is sent to our customers for the following:
- TPC (Total Plate Count)
- coli 0157H7
- Coliforms
- Salmonella
- Staphylococcus Aureus
Hokubee Australia is proud of the safety of Meltique Beef which is brought about through this strict quality assurance system.


Hokubee Australia Pty Ltd
Australia
Hokubee Co. LTD
1-725-1, Shinko Nishi, Ishikari-shi, Hokkaido, 061-3241, Japan
