INDUSTRY watchdog Ausmeat's chief executive, Ian King, is adamant there is a robust audit system in place to ensure processors are compliant when it comes to grading meat.
Assessors are Ausmeat trained, monitored and their computerised records correlated so AusMeat is able to track performance remotely.
"Fundamentally, in this day and age there wouldn't be too many processors who would - in basic words - cheat. Most of them are employees of a company so there is no incentive to cheat."
And if something were to go wrong, there are checks and balances to see where this has occurred.
Mr King dismissed the need for assessors independent of the processor to carry out the grading, describing it as unnecessary.
"We have been down that well-trodden path and it proved to be cost-prohibitive."
Instead, producers should write to Ausmeat if there were specific issues and currently the number of complaints "is zero".
"I would like to think that the system is in good shape and the reason for the few complaints is because it works really well."
Mr King said there was a review of the beef industry language, but he did not think too many aspects would change.
"Ausmeat is the custodian of the industry agreed standard. Can it be improved on? It probably can."
Criticism has been levelled at Ausmeat having little producer representation, with the Cattle Council of Australia being the one voice on the seven-member Australian Meat Industry Language and Standards Committee.
Mr King does not accept this, stating all groups were represented and the way the group has worked over the past 20 years has been based on consensus.
"If their [producers] perceptions are their reality, then it's unfortunate."
