Animal Welfare / Code EFABAR

ISA is dedicated to supporting egg production globally by supplying innovative and sustainable genetic solutions. Our layer breeds play an important role in feeding the fast growing world population with eggs and eggs products. Taking our responsibility for meeting the increased demand for food, goes hand in hand with respecting animal welfare. At ISA we take animal welfare and sustainable breeding in a very serious way.

We strictly adhere to our animal welfare policies related to bird handling. The supervision of our flocks is in the hands of dedicated and well trained employees.

ISA/Hendrix Genetics have adopted the European Code Efabar, a Code of Good Practices with the aim to safeguard sustainable breeding and reproduction. The code addresses among others: food safety and public health, product quality, genetic diversity, efficiency, the environment and animal health and welfare. Breeding has developed into a sophisticated activity, which makes use of the latest findings in genetics and reproductive science. ISA however fully adheres to the Code Efabar’s ban on genetic modification and cloning.

    

 

EFABAR representative Anne Marie Neeteson handing over the EFABAR certificate to Servé Hermans, Managing Director of ISA at the ISA Conference, June 2010