Livestock Products
9.4 Livestock and livestock products produced by animal husbandry
9.4.1 When the inspection system applying specifically to livestock production is first implemented, the producer and the inspection body must draw up:
(a) a full description of the livestock buildings, pasturages, open-air exercise areas, open air runs, etc. and, where applicable, the premises for the storage, packaging and processing of livestock, livestock products, raw materials and inputs.
(b) a full description of the installations for the storage of livestock manure.
(c) plan for spreading such manure agreed with AsureQuality, together with a full description of the areas given over to crop production.
(d) where appropriate, the arrangements laid down by contract with other farms as regards the spreading of manure.
(e) management plan for the organic-production livestock unit (e.g. management for feeding, reproduction, health, etc.)
(f) all practical measures to be taken on the livestock farm to ensure compliance with this Standard.
9.4.2 The description and the measures concerned are to be set out in an inspection report countersigned by the producer concerned.
9.4.3 In addition, the report must specify an undertaking by the producer to carry out operations in accordance with Section 3, 4 and 5 and to accept, in the event of infringement, enforcement of the measures referred to in Section 4.7.
9.4.4 The general requirements on inspection in points 9.1 to 9.2 covering crops and crop products are applicable to livestock and livestock products.
9.4.5 By way of a derogation from those rules, the storage of allopathic veterinary medicinal products and antibiotics is permitted on holdings provided that they have been prescribed by a veterinarian in connection with treatment as referred to in Section 5.6, that they are stored in a supervised location and that they are entered in the farm register.
9.4.6 The livestock must be identified permanently using techniques adapted to each species, individually in the case of large mammals and individually or by batch in the case of poultry and small mammals.
9.4.7 Livestock records must be compiled in the form of a register and kept available to the inspection authorities at all times at the address of the holding.
9.4.8 Such records, which are to provide a full description of the herd or flock management system, must contain the following information:
- by species, as regards livestock arriving at the holding; origin and date of arrival, conversion period, identification mark and veterinary record.
- as regards livestock leaving the holding: age, number of head, weight in case of slaughter, identification mark and destination.
- details of any animals lost and reasons.
- as regards fee: type, including feed supplements, proportions of various ingredients of rations and periods of access to free-range areas, periods when restrictions apply.
- as regards disease prevention regards feed: type, including feed supplements, proportions of various ingredients of rations and periods of access to free-range areas, periods when restrictions apply and treatment and veterinary care: date of treatment, diagnosis, type of treatment product, method of treatment and practitioners prescription for veterinary care with reasons and withdrawal periods applying before livestock products can be marketed.
9.4.9 Where a producer manages several livestock holdings in the same region, the units which produce livestock or livestock products not covered by Section 1 will also be subject to the inspection system as regards the first, second and third indents of point 9.4.1 of this Section on livestock and livestock products and as regards the provisions on livestock management, livestock records and the principles governing storage of animal husbandry products used.
