NEW EU ANIMAL WELFARE ORGANISATION SHOULD PROMOTE HIGH STANDARDS, SAYS EUROPEAN COMMISSION
June 1st, 2017
Europe’s meat and livestock industry is to benefit best practice information regarding animal protection and wellness issues via a new European Union (EU) Platform on Animal Welfare of experts. EU health and food safety Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis inaugurated the first meeting at the European Commission in Brussels yesterday (June 6), with 75 specialists participating, from the meat and livestock industry, retailers, animal welfare activists, scientists, EU governments, European Economic Area countries - Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway, international ...
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