International Animal Welfare Standard Setting: OIE and ISOBetsy FloresVice President Animal CareNational Milk Producers FederationApril 2, 2014

Animal Welfare Standards

• Government Regulation

• EU

• Industry Standards/Guidelines

• US

• Private Standards and Certifications

• Validus, American Humane

OIE Animal Welfare Standards

• General Principles

• Transport

• Slaughter

• Killing of animals for disease purposes

• Beef Cattle

• Broiler Chickens

OIE Standards in Development

• Standards being drafted

• Dairy

• Expected completion 2015

• Standards in pipeline

• Pork

• Layers

International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

Technical Committee 34 (TC34)

Animal Welfare Working Group 16 (WG16)

ISO Infrastructure Overview

• The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies. The work of preparing international standards is usually carried out through ISO technical committees.

• The United States is a member of ISO through the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), whose mission is to enhance the global competitiveness of US business by promoting voluntary consensus standards.

• The American Oil Chemists Society (AOCS) is a member of ANSI and acts as the administrator to the Animal Welfare WG 16.

ISO Infrastructure Continued…

• TC34 is the ISO technical committee for food

• WG16 is the working group of TC34 dealing with animal welfare.

• The US TAG is the United States Technical Advisory Group, administered by AOCS• Each Country has it’s

own TAG

TC34 WG16 Formation…• 2011 Memorandum of

Understand (MOU) struck between OIE & ISO• ISO not to exceed OIE• Work within the OIE

Terrestrial Animal Health Code, Chapter 7

• Safe Supply for Affordable Food Everywhere (SSAFE) approached ISO to work on animal welfare• Cargill, McDonald’s, Nestle

Purina Petcare, Keystone Foods, Coca-Cola Company, Zoetis and Danone

WG16 Background…

• August 2012 WG16 call for participation

• Should work move forward?• US votes “NO”

• US outvoted, work progresses

• Dr. Francois Gary with SSAFE appointed Convener

• October 2012 meeting in Paris, France

• February 2013 meeting in Paris, France

• June 2013 web meeting (Webex)

• July 2013 NWIP sent to TC34 for vote

October 2012 Meeting, Paris

• 9 countries participated and 3 liaison organizations

• Decided draft animal welfare standards would be formed

• Convened a drafting committee• IDF, HSUS, USDA, RSPCA,

SSAFE

• Completed draft caused outcry from all countries

February 2013 Meeting, Paris• 9 countries

participated and 7 liaison organizations

• Draft document from October meeting was thrown out

• Drafting committee to create an outline• Outline was sent out for

comment and voted on during June Webexmeeting

• Outline was to be submitted back to TC34 as a New Work Item Proposal (NWIP)

June 2013 Meeting, Webex• The outline from

February was thrown out

• Supported by Denmark & UK

• ISO asked if work should continue?

• US voted “NO”

• US outvoted, July 2013 NWIP submitted to TC34

• TC34 vote on NWIP was to continue work

• US voted “yes”

Next Steps

• May 23rd meeting of WG16

• Agenda

• Impact Study results

• Composition of the drafting group

• Proposed calendar for 2014-2015

Domestic Issues: the US TAG…

• Poor facilitation through AOCS

• Severe lack of transparency

• 78 participants

• Varying opinions lead to little and unhelpful consensus

Wrap Up…

• 1 year of work

• No tangible outcome

• Against a European and extremist agenda

• Successful

• Disputes on US TAG

• Sustained compliance with OIE

Questions?

For more information contact:

Betsy Flores

bflores@nmpf.org

703-469-2372