Assessment systems to evaluate the quality of animal welfare on farms or at slaughter, have been developed by researchers of Welfare Quality®. These systems for 3 livestock species (and 7 ´animal types´) are founded upon animal-based measures. The systems combine a science-based methodology for assessing farm animal welfare with a standardised way of integrating this information to assign farms and slaughterhouses to one of four categories(from poor to excellent animal welfare). Read More

The conference ´Delivering Animal Welfare and Quality: Transparency in the Food Production Chain, held on 8 and 9 October 2009 in Uppsala, Sweden was an inspiring meeting. The on-demand web cast of all speeches at the conference is available, as well as the programme, the proceedings and PowerPoint presentations. Read More

The Welfare Quality® Assessment Protocols for farm animal welfare (2009) are available as three separate books for poultry, pigs, respectively cattle. All books can be ordered online. Information on these animal welfare assessment protocols, the scientific background, the costs and the ordering form can be found here. Read More

Welfare Quality has set up web pages, to explain online, how the Welfare Quality® assessment works, what the basic principles are and how the data are transformed into scores. The data obtained on a farm have been made available for the farmer, by using a login to get access to the specific data and the final scoring. Read More