Normas de alojamento de animais submetidos a sistema intensivo de produção: subsídio para legislação nacional.

Abstract

Brazil is the largest world’s meat producer and has an import external market. Facing the new animal welfare international demands there is the need to update the Brazilian legislation, which is from the 30s and does not reflect the actual national animal production scenario. This research has as general objective to study the animal housing and transportation conditions, in order to develop subsidies for finding an adequate solution to Brazilian reality. In this study case the focus was to compare norms adopted from several countries in poultry and layers production, and compare them to the Brazilian ones. It was noticed that Brazilian norms are out of date with relation to several itens.