The common seal “B+ ANIMAL WELFARE COMMITMENT” includes in a unified image all the meats and products certified by the different certification systems implemented in a coordinated manner by each sector.
The Spanish sector thus responds to consumer demands for ethical production that is respectful of animal welfare and contributes to ensuring that distribution has certified products on its shelves identified with a single seal that guarantees the best practices in this area. ambit.
December 14, 2022. The Spanish livestock-meat sector represented by its six Interprofessional Organizations has presented the common seal “B+ ANIMAL WELFARE COMMITMENT”, which includes in a unified image all the meats and products certified by the different certification systems implemented in a coordinated manner by each sector.
This is another pioneering initiative that reflects the commitment of the Spanish livestock sector to comply with the highest standards of livestock welfare and to consolidate Spain as one of the great international benchmarks in animal welfare, highlighting the efforts carried out by the sector, with the final objective of responding to the demands of society and offering:
To consumers: guarantee and confidence in the acquisition of its certified products, made through ethical production systems based on the support of production science and animal welfare.
To operators of commercial distribution and specialized distribution: a certification system that includes requirements based on more demanding scientific and technical criteria than those required by European and national regulations.
The common seal “B+ ANIMAL WELFARE COMMITMENT” strictly guarantees the products of the operators that have been certified through the Technical Procedures and Regulations of the respective “Animal Welfare Commitment” certification schemes, developed by the six Interprofessionals based on the criteria and elements established by ENAC (the National Accreditation Entity), to obtain its recognition of accreditable certification. “B+ ANIMAL WELFARE COMMITMENT” and the respective certification schemes that support it are in a continuous process of verification and improvement, with the aim of recognition and accreditation by ENAC.
The common seal “B+ COMMITMENT TO ANIMAL WELFARE” was created to make it easier for consumers to identify, through a single seal, all the products certified with these certification schemes for the sectors of white-coated pigs, Iberian pigs, rabbit meat , sheep-goat, beef and poultry meat, and to offer distribution companies and specialized distribution greater ease in managing their animal welfare requirements for their suppliers and customers.
The certification system of the six Interprofessionals that now culminates in the common seal “B+ ANIMAL WELFARE COMMITMENT” complies with the “Five Freedoms” and the Animal Welfare principles established by the World Organization for Animal Health (WHO). The best Spanish technical specialists and academics in this field have participated in its development, and it has been endorsed by high-level Scientific Committees, resulting in a certification system that includes requirements based on more demanding scientific and technical criteria than those required in the European and national regulations.
The certificate developed by each interprofessional provides recognition, solidity and breadth and allows its adaptation to each livestock production endorsing the good practices carried out in the areas of welfare, health, biosecurity, animal management and traceability in all links. of the productive chain, and is responsibly aligned with the “Farm to Fork” strategy and the Green Deal of the European Union, and therefore is also committed to sustainability, quality and food safety.
Behind this seal “B+ ANIMAL WELFARE COMMITMENT” there are hundreds of thousands of farmers and workers in the sector who make an effort every day and fight for a commitment that they have all acquired, in order to be able to transmit it transparently to the consumer and to the distribution all the criteria of welfare and ethical production that are applied in the good care of the animals and in the attention to the demands received from society in this important aspect of food production.
ASIC. The Iberian Pig Interprofessional Association brings together producers and Iberian product transformation industries.
AVIANZA. The Spanish Interprofessional Association of Poultry Meat brings together both farms and production centers as well as cutting and processing rooms.
INTERCUN. The Interprofessional Organization to promote the Rabbit Sector integrates the representatives of the production branch and rabbit meat transformation-commercialization companies.
INTEROVIC. The Sheep and Goat Meat Interprofessional Organization represents the producers of this livestock branch and the industrialists and marketers who generate and distribute the derived products.
INTERPORT The White Coat Pig Agro-Food Interprofessional Organization represents all sectors of the white coat pig value chain: production, processing and marketing.
PROVACCINE. The Interprofessional Agrifood Organization for Beef Meat is made up of the main organizations of the production sector and the transformation/commercialization sector.