Published in 2015
Updated Guide to Good Practice: Welfare at Slaughter, which provides advice on how to improve the treatment of animals at slaughter, complementing UK and EU legislation. The guide is intended for food industry professionals.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Category of animals: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines
Keywords:Animal-based measurement, Education, Euthanasia
Published in 2025
Article reviewing the multiple potential benefits of AI for the analysis of animals' facial expressions and detection of signs of pain or complex emotions, in which it sometimes performs better than human experts. Researchers are developing algorithms capable of interpreting the emotional states of dogs, cats, horses and primates using deep learning and annotated image databases. However, scientists remain wary of the lack of transparency in the decisions made by AI, and are seeking to combine facial analysis with other indicators to refine the assessment of animal welfare.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories:Canine, Equine, Feline
Keywords:Animal-based measurement, Pain, Identification, Wellfare indicators
Published in 2025
Scientific article investigating whether use of a pain scale based on facial expression is an objective and reliable method of assessing dental pain in horses. It concludes that tools designed to identify acute pain lack reliability if used to assess chronic pain, such as dental pain. A more dental-specific ethogram is needed to accurately identify dental pain in horses.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Equines
Key words:Animal-based measurement, Pain, Behavioral disorders
Published in 2025
Article summarizing the main conclusions of the expert report "Lignes directrices pour l’établissement de référentiels d’étiquetage du bien-être des animaux" (guidelines for the establishment of animal welfare labeling standards), published by Anses.
Document types: Technical Paper
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords:Animal-based measurement, Identification, Welfare indicators, Housing, Societal issues
Published in 2025
New EFSA Opinion on the welfare of horses during killing for purposes other than human consumption, whether indivudally or on a large scale. The Opinion details three phases: pre-stunning, stunning and bleeding. It identifies potential hazards and describes stunning and killing methods (captive bolt, firearm, lethal injection). Potential risks, preventive measures and animal welfare measurement criteria are described, along with practices deemed unacceptable on welfare.
Document Types: Opinions
Animal categories: Equines
Keywords:Animal-based measurement, Anxiety, Consciousness, Pain, Brain integration, Fear, Stress
Published in 2025
New EFSA opinion on the welfare of horses at slaughter for human consumption. The opinion details three phases: pre-stunning, stunning and bleeding. It identifies potential hazards and describes stunning and killing methods (captive bolt, firearm, lethal injection), and proposes measures to assess animal welfare consequences. Practices deemed unacceptable on welfare grounds are also listed.
Document Types: Opinions
Animal categories: Equines
Keywords:Animal-based measurement, Anxiety, Consciousness, Pain, Brain integration, Fear, Stress
Published in 2025
Summary exploring the potential benefits and risks of using livestock technology to improve animal welfare. Its success will depends on public and industry confidence, scientific proof of its effectiveness, and on demonstrable economic and environmental benefits.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: All animals
Keywords:Animal-based measurement, precision farmingIdentification, Welfare indicators
Published in 2025
Study evaluating the impact of transport and fasting on the physiology and health of unweaned calves. The results show that the physiological alterations observed on arrival were more closely related to the duration of feed deprivation than to that of transport, although muscle fatigue was more marked in calves that had travelled the longest.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords:Animal-based measurement, Transport
Published in 2025
Study examining the effect of light color on the pecking behavior and growth of Youhuang broilers. Although light did not influence growth, the cold white light group showed more severe plumage damage and lower serotonin levels than the warm white or red light groups. Warm white light is recommended, as it is more user-friendly and limits pecking.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Poultry
Key words:Adaptation of environment to animal, Aggression, Aggressiveness, Animal-based measurement, Animal housing, Enrichment, Welfare indicator, Behavioral disorders
Published in 2024
Study using CatFACS manual coding and facial cues automatically detected by AI to classify affiliative and non-affiliative interactions in cats. It shows that rapid facial mimicry is more frequent in affiliative contexts, particularly in ear movements. These results open up new perspectives on the analysis of facial signals and cat emotions using AI.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Felines
Keywords:Animal-based measurement, Socialization
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