Second US Poultry Sustainability Report Released

A new sustainability report is charting progress in US poultry production. The roundtable for sustainable poultry and eggs and the International Poultry Welfare Alliance released a framework-based report tracking welfare, worker safety, water use, feed traceability, and greenhouse gas emissions. Director of Marketing for the Organization, Elena Myhre.

“The framework covers 101 voluntary metrics. We haven't reported on all 101 yet, because we're really working at making sure that we have comprehensive enough data before we report but we we have almost all of them at this point that that we have reported on, there are 15 priority areas, and they basically fall under your people, planet and poultry pillars, as we call them, within the framework

my says the round tables members, which are retailers, growers, processors and allied organizations, submit voluntary data that is housed with a research partner, so only aggregate results are published. One headline from the report is workplace injuries have fallen dramatically.”

“Here the recordable incidence rate, it's 2.4 per 100 full time workers, and that is a 90% reduction from 1994.

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Myhre points out that the framework is meant to be a roadmap for continuous improvement and future consumer messaging, the roundtable also plans outreach to enroll more growers and expand data coverage.