New Belgian animal welfare built on BePork standard

Published 2021년 10월 6일

Tridge summary

Belgium is introducing a new quality mark for its pork, called BePork, which will mandate stricter standards on animal health, welfare, sustainability, food safety, and traceability across the pork supply chain, from farmers to transport companies and slaughterhouses. A new module within BePork is focused on enhancing animal welfare, with guidelines that surpass existing legislation and are expected to be applicable across the whole of Belgium. The module will allow consumers to trace the animal welfare criteria of the product at the point of sale. While the responsibility for animal welfare lies with the three regions of Flanders, Wallonia, and the Brussels-Capital Region, plans are in place to extend this voluntary system to other farm animal species. The animal welfare module is nearing full operation, despite some administrative challenges remaining before its official launch.
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Original content

BePork is a guarantee for high-quality Belgian pork. The standard includes a set of norms that are more stringent than Belgian legislation. It focuses on animal health, animal welfare, sustainability, food safety and traceability and has been designed for the entire supply chain of pork production, going from the level of livestock farmers over transport companies to slaughterhouses and cutting plants. The new top-up for animal welfare builds on the generic BePork standard and implies far-reaching extralegal norms that are solely aimed at improving animal welfare. In addition to the primary sector, the slaughterhouses are also covered. The transport stage is already extensively covered in the BePork specifications and is therefore not dealt with separately in this module. This cross-stage approach to animal welfare is not commonplace in international comparison, as many other animal welfare systems at home and abroad are mainly limited to the stage of the primary sector. Belpork ...
Source: EuroMeat

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