Animal Welfare

The health and welfare of food producing animals is essential for public health and consumer protection.

Animal health is an important factor in food safety. Some diseases, the so called zoonoses, such as tuberculosis, salmonellosis and listeriosis can be transmitted to humans through contaminated food. The availability of a correct picture of the situation is a pre-requisite for action.

The EC recognises that animal welfare questions need to be integrated more fully with regard to food policy. In particular, the impact on the quality and safety of products of animal origin intended for human consumption.

Product Profiles

• Animal welfare
• Breeding
• Handing equipment
• Housing and fixed equipment
• Environment metres and controls
• Sanitation and cleaning products
• Feed handling and storage
• Feed preparation equipment
• Feeding systems
• Watering equipment
• Manure handling and waste disposal
• Pest control products
• Processing, equipment, supplies and services
• Laboratory products and services

Product Profiles: Animal Health & Nutrition

Nutrition

• Acidifiers
• Amino acids
• Emulsifiers
• Enzymes
• Fats
• Feed concentrates
• Feed premixes
• Fish meal and solubles
• Growth promoter feed additives
• Mineral supplements
• Probiotic products
• Protein supplements
• Vitamins
• Vitamin-mineral premixes
• Yeast products

Health

• Antibiotics
• Anti-vice products
• Diagnostic tests
• Iron – injectable / oral
• Medicators / liquids proportioners
• Pharmaceuticals
• Sedatives / tranquillisers
• Vaccines
• Wound sprays
• Veterinary instruments

Under Discussion

• Successfully implementing the new EU regulation and how to spend the EU funding money effectively
• Key standards for animal welfare
• Traceability
• Vacancies are the way to healthy livestock and healthy profits
• Measuring the cost of poor livestock health
• Breeding techniques and productivity
• Promoting antibiotic use to improve animal welfare
• Recent outbreaks of food related illness across Europe such as Listeria, Salmonella and Avian flu
• Strengthening feed safety, in particular the relation to feed traceability and improving general feeding strategies across the EU
• EU proposes animal welfare labelling for food products

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