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Written question asked by Elliot Morley (Labour) on Tuesday, 15 December 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 5 January 2010. It was answered by Jim Fitzpatrick (Labour) on Monday, 11 January 2010 on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.


Animal Welfare

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment he has made of the merits of implementing the European Commission's proposal for a voluntary community animal welfare label for the purposes of standardising labelling of food with animal welfare information.
Answer

The EC has outlined a number of options for animal welfare labelling in a recently published report 'Options for animal welfare labelling and the establishment of a European network of Reference Centres for the protection and welfare of animals'. Our approach to welfare labelling will be guided by general principles which we are developing with the EC.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
503 c674W; 308292
Session
2009-10
Subjects
Animal welfare EU action
Link
View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk