Rule changes governing organic livestock and poultry practices in the US are about to be released for “public comment” as part of the country’s national organics…
Month: April 2016
The UK’s new £70 million livestock research hub has been backed by Tesco, which has become the first retail member to join the Centre of Innovation…
Approval has been granted in the US for PURE Bioscience to begin an in-plant poultry processing trial of a spray-applied antimicrobial that is designed to reduce…
The last three years has seen a 44% decrease in the total amount of antibiotics used by members of the BPC Antibiotic Stewardship Scheme, despite the…
The British Poultry Council (BPC) has voiced its disappointment at the government’s reversal of its earlier decision to move towards jointly-owned welfare guidance. “We’re disappointed by…
Defra has abandoned its plans to devolve the updating of the UK’s animal welfare codes to individual livestock sectors, the first of which was due to…
Walmart US is to become a 100% cage-free egg supply chain by 2025, a step which the company says represents a commitment to continuously improving its…
The opportunity for farmers to average profits for Income Tax purposes over five years, instead of the previous two years, came into force on April 6,…
Welfare in poultry and egg production should be measured according to the stockmanship and management systems in place rather than which farming method is being used,…
A call for more resources to be allocated toward combatting antibiotic resistance (AMR) has been made in the US by President Barak Obama’s administration, backed by…