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Foreword
FAO
Synergizing good practices on animal feed
Delgado et al. (1999) used the term ‘Livestock Revolution’ to describe the rapid growth of the global
livestock sector in response to the increase in demand for food of animal origin which they said “has
profound implications for human health, livelihoods and the environment.”
Livestock production is growing fastest in the developing world, particularly in Asia and Latin
America. Increased output has been achieved mainly through the intensification of production sys-
tems and through a shift towards poultry and pigs with much slower expansion of beef production;
dairying too has increased in both scale and intensification. The industrialisation of livestock produc-
tion systems, characterized by high animal densities and limited land base for the recycling of manure
and other waste in crop agriculture, are associated with substantial environmental externalities and
require particular attention to biosecurity, animal disease emergence and control as well as to animal
welfare and domestic animal diversity management.
Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) and good practices in assessing, managing and communicating
risks along the entire food chain are required. Such practices need to respect conditions of economic,
environmental and social sustainability and to be geared towards protecting food safety and veteri-
nary public health. FAO assigns high priority to the development of good agricultural and manage-
ment practices in livestock production and animal health; their application in the livestock sector relies
on the active involvement of the sector itself in the design of such practices. The close collaboration
of industry and inter-governmental agencies such as FAO in this endeavour is key for achieving the
desired impact.
Food safety is a core area of the collaboration of all actors, private and public, for the protection of
the animal product food chain from the farm to the consumer. Given the direct links between animal
feed and the safety of foods of animal origin, it is essential that feed production and manufacture are
considered as an integral part of the food pl Feed Associations, universities
and feed industry members for significant contributions to
drafting the manual. Primary contacts include Ariovaldo Zanni,
Flavia Ferreira de Castro, Angela Pellegrino Missaglia and Dario
Righi of the Brazilian Feed Industry Association (Sindirações),
Richard Sellers and Dave Bossman of the American Feed
Association (AFIA), Honjie Yang of the China Feed Industry
Association (CFIA), Alexander Döring of the European Feed
Manufacturers Federation (FEFAC), DeWitt Boshoff of the African
Feed Millers Association (AFMA), Tim Herrman of Texas A&M
University, George Kau of DSroduction chain. Feed production must therefore be sub-
ject, in the same way as food production, to the quality assurance of integrated food safety systems.
The Joint FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission approved three important Codes affecting
livestock production: the Code of Practice for Good Animal Feeding, the Code of Hygienic Practice for
Meat and the Code of Hygienic Practice for Milk and Milk Products. FAO is determined to assist in the
practical implementation of these Codes across the sector by bringing together the relevant actors
in the animal feed and animal production, processing and retail chain to address the critical issues
of food safety and sustainable development. The
Foreword
FAO
Synergizing good practices on animal feed
Delgado et al. (1999) used the term ‘Livestock Revolution’ to describe the rapid growth of the global
livestock sector in response to the increase in demand for food of animal origin which they said “has
profound implications for human health, livelihoods and the environment.”
Livestock production is growing fastest in the developing world, particularly in Asia and Latin
America. Increased output has been achieved mainly through the intensification of production sys-
tems and through a shift towards poultry and pigs with much slower expansion of beef production;
dairying too has increased in both scale and intensification. The industrialisation of livestock produc-
tion systems, characterized by high animal densities and limited land base for the recycling of manure
and other waste in crop agriculture, are associated with substantial environmental externalities and
require particular attention to biosecurity, animal disease emergence and control as well as to animal
welfare and domestic animal diversity management.
Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) and good practices in assessing, managing and communicating
risks along the entire food chain are required. Such practices need to respect conditions of economic,
environmental and social sustainability and to be geared towards protecting food safety and veteri-
nary public health. FAO assigns high priority to the development of good agricultural and manage-
ment practices in livestock production and animal health; their application in the livestock sector relies
on the active involvement of the sector itself in the design of such practices. The close collaboration
of industry and inter-governmental agencies such as FAO in this endeavour is key for achieving the
desired impact.
Food safety is a core area of the collaboration of all actors, private and public, for the protection of
the animal product food chain from the farm to the consumer. Given the direct links between animal
feed and the safety of foods of animal origin, it is essential that feed production and manufacture are
considered as an integral part of the food pl Feed Associations, universities
and feed industry members for significant contributions to
drafting the manual. Primary contacts include Ariovaldo Zanni,
Flavia Ferreira de Castro, Angela Pellegrino Missaglia and Dario
Righi of the Brazilian Feed Industry Association (Sindirações),
Richard Sellers and Dave Bossman of the American Feed
Association (AFIA), Honjie Yang of the China Feed Industry
Association (CFIA), Alexander Döring of the European Feed
Manufacturers Federation (FEFAC), DeWitt Boshoff of the African
Feed Millers Association (AFMA), Tim Herrman of Texas A&M
University, George Kau of DSroduction chain. Feed production must therefore be sub-
ject, in the same way as food production, to the quality assurance of integrated food safety systems.
The Joint FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission approved three important Codes affecting
livestock production: the Code of Practice for Good Animal Feeding, the Code of Hygienic Practice for
Meat and the Code of Hygienic Practice for Milk and Milk Products. FAO is determined to assist in the
practical implementation of these Codes across the sector by bringing together the relevant actors
in the animal feed and animal production, processing and retail chain to address the critical issues
of food safety and sustainable development. The
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