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Welfare standards for the layer industry

Requirements for the Egg Industry in the 2001 Welfare Code In August 2000, ARMCANZ (Agriculture and Resource Management Council of Australia and New Zealand) made decisions on layer cage housing... read more

Welfare standards for the chicken meat industry

National animal welfare standards for the broiler industry were developed to help fulfil both industry’s and the community’s expectations of high levels of quality assurance associated with chicken meat production. The... read more

Auditing Animal Welfare

Demand for animal welfare standards Some poultry companies are including animal welfare in their Quality Assurance (QA) programs in response to consumer and market demands indicating that animal welfare is a... read more

What is scientific assessment of welfare?

The last three decades has witnessed a dramatic increase in society’s interest in the welfare of farm animals (Fraser, 2001; Levy, 2004; Coleman, 2008) and consequently there has been increasing scrutiny of... read more