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KMID : 1138720070330010036
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Korean Public Health Research
2007 Volume.33 No. 1 p.36 ~ p.38
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Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points(HACCP) and Animal Welfare
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Lee Hu-Jang
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Abstract
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Hazard analysis critical control points (HACCP) was originally developed as a microbiological safety system to ensure the safety of food. HACCP looks for hazards in the product-safety sense and became eventually a legislative requirement for food safety and food hygiene in many countries. The principles of the HACCP concept have been extended to animal health management strategies by various groups, demonstrating that process control and product control could form the basis for improving animal health. More recently, this concept has been adopted by welfare scientists in order to safeguard the welfare of farm animals. A major component of the HACCP system is to describe potential hazards and to establish critical control points (CCP) to assuring the safety of the product (or in relation to welfare assessment: to safeguard the welfare of the animal in the production process). Many countries including Korea are currently establishing assessment criteria for housing, management practices, transportation, and slaughterhouse that includes control points such as stunning efficacy, animal vocalization scores and electric prod usage. In animal production, low investment costs and high production efficiency are vital criteria for future competitiveness. However, in contrast to the past decades, issues such as animal welfare and health, environmental care, product safety and consumer acceptance are becoming increasingly important and need to be strongly considered in future livestock housing assessment. Now, both HACCP and animal welfare have become an integrated part of quality assurance programs for sustainable animal production, considering that welfare, health, management, economy, consumer acceptance and environmental impact are depending on each other.
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KEYWORD
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HACCP, Animal welfare, Animal well-being, Animal production, Livestock
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