ISO and Animal Welfare Standards

Paul Sundberg, DVM, PhD National Pork Board

ISO and Animal Welfare – Who’s on First?

• SSAFE – Safe Supply of Affordable Food Everywhere – Pfizer – Coca-Cola – McDonald’s – Cargill – Michigan State University – Nestle – Keystone Foods

• ISO – International Standards Organization • AOCS – American Oil Chemists’ Society • OIE

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OIE and Animal Welfare Since May 2005, the World Assembly of OIE Delegates (representing the 178 Member Countries and Territories) has adopted eight animal welfare standards in the Terrestrial Code and three animal welfare standards in the OIE Aquatic Animal Health Standards Code (Aquatic Code). These standards cover: • The transport of animals by land • The transport of animals by sea • The transport of animals by air • The slaughter of animals for human consumption • The killing of animals for disease control purposes • The control of stray dog populations • The use of animals in research and education • Animal welfare and beef cattle production systems • Animal welfare and broiler chicken production systems • The welfare of farmed fish during transport • The welfare aspects of stunning and killing of farmed fish for human consumption • Killing of farmed fish for disease control purposes.

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Development of Animal Welfare ISO Certification

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US AOCS

US Technical Advisory Group - TAG

ISO TC34 Food Products Working Group led by SSAFE

ISO TC34 Food Products

Other national

organizations

Other national technical advisory groups

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ISO/TC 34 Food Products

SCOPE • Standardization in the field of human and animal foodstuffs,

covering the food chain from primary production to consumption, as well as animal and vegetable propagation materials, in particular, but not limited to, terminology, sampling, methods of test and analysis, product specifications, food and feed safety and quality management and requirements for packaging, storage and transportation

• Excluded: products covered by ISO/TC 54 Essential oils; ISO/TC 93 Starch (including derivatives and by-products); and ISO/TC 234 Fish & Fish Products.

ISO/TC 34 Structure Secretariat

AFNOR (S. Espeillac) 7 Working Groups

• WG 4 Cocoa • WG 10 Food Irradiation • WG 12 Application of ISO

9001:2000 in Agriculture • WG 13 Royal Jelly • WG 14 Vitamins, Carotenoids and

Other Nutrients • WG 15 Nutrition and Dietetics

Services • WG 16 Animal Welfare

Chair F. Falconnet (through 2015)

15 Sub Committees

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Oilseeds; cereals & pulses; milk & products;

meat, fish, poultry, eggs; spices; tea; microbiology;

animal feeding stuffs; animal and vegetable fats & oils;

sensory analysis; coffee; molecular biomarker analysis;

safety systems for food

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Development of Animal Welfare ISO Certification

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US AOCS

US Technical Advisory Group - TAG

ISO TC34 Food Products Working Group led by SSAFE

ISO TC34 Food Products

Other national

organizations

Other national technical advisory groups

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Proposal

Idea

NWIP

Work Program

Working Group

formation

Development of draft (WD)

CD

Develop

Submit

Vote

Add

Meet

Vote

OIE/ISO/TC 34 Discussion

CAG discussion

NWIP

WD

NWIP

Request WG formation

What happened

Development of Animal Welfare ISO Certification • Current status

– Initial 2012 draft rejected • Unrealistically prescriptive

– Substitute 2013 draft rejected • Technical Specification to guide application of OIE standards • Applicable to all countries • Concern about setting new standards / concern about

lowering current private program standards – ISO-TC34 countries are voting on NWIP to start over

• Go / No Go • Technical Specification / Management System Standard

• “National” consensus through ISO/AOCS process attainable? – New draft will have to be accepted by the TC 34 WG

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Development of Animal Welfare ISO Certification • ISO has been asked to postpone the project until all

OIE animal welfare standards are done – Dairy – Laying hens – Swine

• Outcome may be ISO certification available for animal welfare based on OIE standards

• Impact on money and resources and may range from – requirement for individual ISO certification of farms to – ISO certification of programs (example PQA Plus)

• Impact will be affected by pork chain customer adoption

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