Game Farm has been fined $20,400 for claiming its birds were range reared, when in fact they were grown in commercial sheds. Game Farm has paid two Australian Competition and Consumer Commission infringement notices and has been ordered to send a corrective notice to its major customers. Read more here: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission : Game…
The World Trade Organization has upheld Europe’s ban on imported seal products, ruling that it is justified on “public moral concerns” for animal welfare. This landmark decision will set a precedent which supports the rights of nations to ban the seal product trade. Read more here. For a summary of the WTO panel’s key findings, click…
China’s Food and Drug Administration has announced that from June 2014, China plans to remove its mandatory animal testing requirements for domestically manufactured cosmetic products. “Non-special use cosmetics” such as shampoo or perfume may then have their product safety substantiated in reliance on existing safety data for raw ingredients, or European Union-validated non-animal tests instead…
The Prime Minister by media release today announced on cost grounds the abolition of the Australian Animal Welfare Advisory Committee, a non – statutory body which amongst other things advised the federal minister and department of agriculture and the Standing Council on Primary Industries ( federal and state agricultural ministers) on animal welfare matters. In…
As a member of the Animal Coalition, the Panel opposes indigenous hunting of marine life like turtles and dugongs. The Panel has arranged for legal advice to be tendered shortly to the Animal Coalition on the means to secure this in the face of native title and exemptions from cruelty laws for indigenous custom. The…
Here are the overheads for the Bill Bruce seminars. We thank him for kindly making them available to the Panel for publication. 2012_Animal Services Presentation Chilliwack 2
Baiada (owner of Steggles) and Bartter, which supply meat chicken products, have been fined $400K in respect of their misleading ‘free to roam’ representations by Tracey J of the Federal Court sitting at Melbourne on Wednesday 30 October 2013. The companies together with the Australian Meatchicken Federation had been previously found (in a separate judgement handed…
Victorian duck producer Luv-A-Duck was today fined $360K by the Federal Court sitting at Melbourne for false claims its products were “range reared…in the spacious Victorian Wimmera wetlands” when in fact the ducks were at all times confined to their shed. The claims were taken up by the Panel and Animal Liberation NSW with the…