Electronic sanitary certificates for trade in animal products

Challenges of Sanitary Compliance Related to Trade in Products of Animal Origin in Southern Africa

Irrespective of the existence of potentially pathogenic organisms carried by animals, foods of animal origin remain the prime nutrition of humans world-wide. As such, food safety continues to be a global concern primarily to safeguard public health and to promote international trade. Application of integrated risk-based quality assurance procedures on-farm and at slaughterhouses plays a crucial...

Recent developments in animal identification and the traceability of animal products in international trade.

The author explores the variations in the domestic livestock populations world-wide between 1961 and 1998, and observes a marked increase in the swine population, as compared to other domestic species. Trends in international trade of live animals over the same period are also analysed; international trade involved 1% of livestock world-wide and the international meat market constituted 10% of ...

Uniform Sanitary Epidemiological and Hygienic Requirements for Products subject to Sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision (Control)

Online Appendix for Menstruation, Sanitary Products and School Attendance

This Appendix provides details and expanded results for our paper, “Menstruation, Sanitary Products and School Attendance: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation”. In the main paper we present the data and experimental design. Our results show negative, although small, effects of periods on school attendance. We find no significant effect of modern sanitary products on reducing the small effect ...

Animal welfare and developing countries: opportunities for trade in high-welfare products from developing countries.

Discussion on the potential for developing countries to develop trade in niche markets such as higher welfare standards has been highlighted with moves by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) to set internationally agreed standards for animal welfare. This paper examines the existing and potential trade in value-added higher welfare products using case studies in the beef and poultry ...