The National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee discussed the future of sow crates yesterday at a routine quarterly meeting, but chairman Peter O'Hara was not available to comment afterwards.
Mr Carter has asked the advisory board to make reviewing the 2005 code for pigs its "highest priority".
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