Labelling and traceability

The US Department of Justice has launched a criminal probe into allegations that America's larges poultry companies colluded to fix poultry prices.

The trial will be introduced across Lidl’s fresh chicken products, after research showed that the majority of shoppers want retailers to be more transparent about how the fresh chicken they buy was reared.

Would the British public accept chlorinated chicken masking lower welfare standards on farm or hormone-fed beef flooding supermarket shelves in exchange for a US trade deal?

"Our high animal welfare standards must not be undermined by cheap imports," said the Central Association of the German Poultry Industry (ZDG).

The British Egg Industry Council calls for stronger deterrents for food fraud after news of an egg trader in the Netherlands was convicted of fraudulently selling contaminated eggs as fit for human consumption.

UK - Poorly performing farms are to receive unannounced inspections in a move to increase consumer confidence in Red Tractor logo

EU - Campaigning MEP John Flack is backing a move to link farm subsidies to animal welfare across Europe

GLOBAL - The World Animal Health Organisation (OIE) is proposing global standards for housing laying hens, which will now exclude conventional cages from their standard

UK, 3 December 2018 - Significant new powers granted to the UK and devolved nations post brexit, could be used to introduce a ban on live exports, claims the RSPCA

UK 21 November 2018 - A huge step in Red Tractor’s evolution has been announced as the assurance scheme bids to become the flagship of British food and farming

Twelve months after industry-led targets for antibiotic use were identified for all main farm livestock species in the UK, a review of progress has been released, including details of where targets have been achieved ear…

Yesterday (14 November), the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) sued the US Department of Agriculture for its unreasonable delay in responding to a 2014 AWI petition, which asked the agency to require independent certificati…

FRANCE, 14 November 2018 - The World Organisation for Animal Health kicks off World Antibiotics Awareness Week 2018 with a call to action for all animal health stakeholders: “We all have a role to play to protect these i…

Farm organisations are attempting to change the fate of male chicks.

USA, 8 November 2018: Since the last update on July 19, 2018, 74 ill people from 26 states have been added to this investigation

UK, 9 November 2018 - A year on from a change in official advice, which said that everyone including those classed as vulnerable groups (mums to be, young children, and the elderly) can now enjoy eggs however they want, …

Mass spectrometry, a molecular identification method commonly used in healthcare, drug testing and food safety, has now proven its capacity for identifying foreign material in meat products

MOSCOW, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Russia plans to start supplying frozen poultry to China by the end of 2018, the government said on Wednesday, ending several years of waiting for meat producers to gain access to the major marke…

DENMARK, 5 November 2018 - Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN), a United Nations, UK and US government-supported initiative advocating the proactive sharing of Open Data to make information about agric…

EU - Compassion in World Farming announced their first European EggTrack report which shows the progress companies are making towards ending the use of cages for laying hens