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By Alice McFarlane

Livestock transportation

Livestock and poultry transportation regulations under review

Mar 8, 2019 | 5:04 PM

The National Farm Animal Care Council (NFACC) has launched a survey to gather input as it rewrites Canada’s Code of Practice for the transportation of livestock and poultry.

It’s been 18 years since the code was updated. NFACC General Manager Jackie Wepruk said humane transportation of animals is a joint responsibility between farmers, buyers and sellers, transitional sites like auction and assembly yards, managers and transporters. The survey will capture welfare concerns from any and all stakeholders.

Wepruk said there will be an opportunity for anyone to be involved in the process.

“One group that we really want to engage though is, of course, livestock and poultry transporters. This is their code so they need to be involved,” Wepruk said. “We’re looking for good geographical representation of transporters too so we have a number of transporters identified from Eastern Canada but we certainly would like more Western Canadian livestock and poultry transporters to step forward and be engaged at the working group level.”

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“We understand that transporters are super busy and obviously are spending their time on the road so making committee or working group participation is obviously going to be a challenge. However, even if transporters can’t commit the kind of time that is required to sit on a working group or a code committee we’d encourage them to provide their input in other ways like through an initial survey, which will be available for input until the end of the month,” Wepruk said.

There will be a 60-day public comment period and that is tentatively scheduled for some time between April and September of 2022. A final code is scheduled to be released by March of 2023.

To participate in the survey visit www.nfacc.ca/codes-of-practice/transportation.

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alice.mcfarlane@jpbg.ca