Progress on OIE Global Hen Housing Standards

Progress on the OIE’s Global Hen Housing outcome-based standards is taking place but may not come into force until 2019/2020. Kevin Lovell, who represents the OIE on the Ad-hoc ‘Animal Welfare and laying hens production systems’ working group, said their delayed reformatted report would be discussed by the OIE’s Code Commission in the next few days. It is likely that there will then be a consultation, enabling all 180 countries belonging to the OIE to engage and lobby their respective c