Handling and welfare

A compulsory animal welfare label will be introduced for meat from 2022

The assessment was requested by the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI)

The aim is to support the review of animal welfare practices

New study looks at poultry producers’ willingness to pay more for on-farm carcass disposal if it will lower risk of further spread of a disease.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is researching the risks antimicrobial resistant bacteria spreading during animal transport.

Commercial farms across the Netherlands were ordered to keep all poultry inside after a bird flu case was reported on a layer farm.

Animal welfare advocates in the US welcome the ruling from a federal judge stating that a lawsuit against the USDA for failing to require humane handing of poultry at slaughter can move forward.

The carbon dioxide industry in Britain has struck an agreement to ensure businesses have a sustainable supply until the end of the year, even as energy prices spike, the government said on 11 October.

USPOULTRY's 2021 Poultry Processor Workshop will be held from 16 to 17 November in Nashville, Tennessee and will showcase best management practices in all processing sectors.

Britain has temporarily exempted parts of the carbon dioxide (CO2) industry from competition law to help provide further security of the gas's supplies to food businesses in the country.

An analysis written by Peter Hardwicke from the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) explains that shortages of EU laborers in the UK meat industry will undermine its competitiveness going forward.

The British Poultry Council has issued a statement saying that government efforts to shore up the seasonal labor supply ahead of Christmas was only the first step.

Nearly 5,500 temporary poultry workers will be permitted to travel to and work in the UK in the run up to Christmas.

Britain’s decision to issue temporary visas for 5,000 foreign truck drivers is a short-term fix that will not solve an acute labor shortage that risks major disruption for retailers in the run-up to Christmas, business leaders have warned.…

The UK has vowed to do whatever it takes to resolve a trucker shortage that has forced oil giant BP to close some petrol stations and strained supermarket supply chains to breaking point.

Consumers should not panic buy products as Britain is not heading back into a 1970s-style "winter of discontent" of strikes and power shortages, a junior minister said on 23 September.

The UK's National Farmers Union (NFU) is calling on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to implement a COVID-19 Recovery Visa to address labor shortages that are adversely impacting the supply chain.

Britain warned the food industry on 22 September that carbon dioxide prices would rise sharply after offering tens of millions of dollars of state support to a fertiliser company to avert a food supply crunch.

Britain's meat processors will start running out of carbon dioxide (CO2) this week, forcing them to halt production and impacting supplies to retailers, the BMPA, an industry lobby group warned on 20 September.

Earlier this week, National Farmers Union (NFU) submitted formal comments to the US Department of Agriculture in response to a request for information on “Investments and Opportunities for Meat and Poultry Processing Infrastructure.”…