The Welfare Quality Assessment Protocols for cattle (sans veal), poultry and pork are now available for downloading in PDF format. Read More...

A corrected version of all protocols (Cattle, Pig and Poultry) will be available as pdf files before the summer holidays 2012. Please watch the announcement on the website.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 programme, the proceedings and PowerPoint presentations are available. The on-demand web cast of all speeches at the conference is only available for Welfare Quality Network participantsRead More...

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...