Report by the Animal Welfare Committee (AWC) on the use of high expansion nitrogen foam delivery systems for depopulation of poultry flocks affected by notifiable disease in the UK.
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Animal Welfare Committee: opinion on the use of high expansion nitrogen foam delivery systems for depopulation of poultry flocks affected by notifiable disease in the UK , file type: PDF, file size: 360 KB
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Advise on the animal welfare and ethical implications of high expansion nitrogen foam as a poultry culling method during depopulation for disease control.
AWC was asked to provide the following:
- an animal welfare assessment of high expansion nitrogen foam as a method of depopulation for intensively kept poultry
- a comparison to other legal stunning methods
- whether high expansion nitrogen foam is appropriate for mass depopulation of poultry
- if applicable, how to progress its use as a culling method in Avian Influenza and other notifiable avian disease outbreaks