The Instituto Nacional de Carnes (INAC) is an organization created to advise the Executive Power. It’s also responsible of the Uruguayan meats promotion in the world and the commercial quality control of the products to be exported. It is directed by a Board compose by the industry and the private sectors producers representatives.

Nowadays, accompanying the necessities for the evolution of the sector, the INAC Mission is centered in promoting activities and formulating strategies that add value to the meat chain, improving their efficiency and competitiveness in the production, industrialization, commercialization, storage and transport systems. For it, identifies the high-priority investigation subjects and development in the technical services areas of the agro-industrial chain, external and domestic market.

INAC leads the Natural Meat Certified Program in the country.
In the last years, the meat sector evolution is characterized by its great dynamism and growth performance, occupying one of the greatest importance and commitment economic areas of the country.

Within the country there are 14 refrigerating companies that count on rating to export to the UE and 15 to the United States. Plants with an outpost technological level, highly described manual labor, that fulfill the most rigorous hygienic - sanitary and HACCP norms exigencies. The commercial transparency is supervised and assured by the Instituto Nacional de Carnes (INAC), and the presence of the Cattle Agriculture and Fishing Ministry (MGAP), protecting the aspects of nourishing security, animal well-being and environmental control.

The cattle sector and specifically the Meat Agroindustry is one of the greater socioeconomic importance sectors in Uruguay. The meat exports represent a 23% of the total exports and a 30% of the Farming Gross Product.