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Each abattoir will be required to designate an Animal Welfare Officer to be present on the premises to monitor and take responsibility for the welfare of animals.

In recent years, a growing number of major U.S. companies that demand and supply pork products have adopted strategies that explicitly move away from direct or indirect use of gestation crates in pork production.

Cutting transport time to eight hours must be supplemented by other measures, such as support for local slaughterhouses and meat processing plants...

Pig finishers with concrete slats with a slot width of more than 18mm, but not more than 21mm, will not need to replace them after all.

The Commission has stepped up calls on Member States to ensure that the ban on individual sow stalls is fully applied from 1 January 2013.

Australian pork producers can now attain Free Range Certification under a newly developed, on-farm, free range standard, within the APIQ program.

The aim of this report is to improve understanding by setting out the latest progress towards implementation and enforcement of the regulations and by developing scenarios for the market situation both before and after implementation.

The Australian pork industry’s voluntary move away from the use of sow stalls by 2017, is making substantial progress, with around one in three sows now spending their pregnant lives sow stall free.

Iowa pork producers have reached a new milestone as 15,000 Iowa pork producers, employees and others with pork industry interests have been certified through the Pork Quality Assurance (PQA) Plus® program.

Only 12 Member States have confirmed that they expect their producers to be fully compliant with the new regulations by the end of the year.

This investment will help the AFAC develop a certification program that will lead to training for livestock and poultry transporters throughout Canada.

More than one million people have signed an online petition to improve the welfare of animals transported to slaughter across Europe.