Alternative improved housing systems for poultry is the subject of this first international seminar examining systems developed in the Netherlands which are not based on battery cages. Reports are presented from several Member States of the Community where other research is in progress and from...

The study was aimed at improving harmonisation of pig carcass classification standards applied in EC countries by relating the classification results to a uniformly expressed percentage of lean in the carcass, which is the basic criterion in pig carcass classification. For that purpose the...