Chicken

• The Committee adopted by consensus a positive opinion for a variation requiring assessment for Strangvac to implement the outcome of the MAH’s signal management process to add adverse reactions in the product information.
• The respective target species were cattle, pigs and sheep (one product), chickens, and squirrel monkeys (one product each).
• Concept papers, guidelines
  Quality
  The Committee adopted an annex to the Guideline on quality aspects of pharmaceutical veterinary medicines for administration via drinking water on compatibility studies between veterinary medicinal products and biocidal products (EMA/CVMP/QWP/592906/2022) following close of public consultation.
• The comments received during the consultation procedure were taken into account for the revision of the annex.

• JP Energy Global sales team is currently in China coordinating the full operation with our valued customers.
• The performance bond coupled with the documentary letter of credit ensures the payment to JP Energy Global, PTE, LTD.
• In this case, the product, Grade A Chicken Paws, was acquired by JP Energy Global, from Brazil, and then sold to China, as set forth above.
• JP Energy Global, PTE, LTD is registered with the Overseas Exporters of Imported Foods with the General Administration of China Customs.

• The victims were illegally smuggled Chinese immigrants, brought via Liverpool by criminal gangmasters, and forced to work in highly dangerous conditions, scavenging for shellfish.
• If the cocklers had been given even basic information about the treacherous tides or been supervised, they could have survived.

An alert to modern slavery

• As a Lancashire lass, I remember the dramatic effect this tragedy had on local feelings toward the plight of immigrants.
• Morecambe was a favoured local seaside spot for family adventures and bracing walks that was now the site of mass manslaughter and terror.
• The lead detective found at the time that around £1 million a day was being funnelled from the UK to China from exploited labour.

How the law has evolved

• The law set standards of health and safety, pay, accommodation and training for workers.
• It also established the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA), to safeguard worker welfare and provide a legal framework for prosecuting criminal gangmasters.
• The Modern Slavery Act was the world’s first law on modern slavery and the first requiring businesses to report how they prevent it in their supply chains.

Lessons still to be learned

• A UK flower distributor told us that many of their UK growers pose more risk in terms of modern slavery than their Colombian flower farms do.
• And this is not just a business risk, this can be a risk to life for vulnerable, untrained, ill-equipped forced labourers.
• After the introduction of the Modern Slavery Act, there are, formally, more protections for those experiencing slavery, servitude, forced or compulsory labour.
• We now have the Illegal Migration Act, which experts have said puts even more people at risk of modern slavery.

Jill Timms received funding from the Vulnerable Supply Chains Facility (VSCF), a rapid COVID-19 response fund set up by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) for the Building Resilience in Flower Supply Chains Project.

• Salisbury, MD, Feb. 01, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Jim Perdue, third-generation chairman of Maryland-based Perdue Farms , received the National Protein and Food Distributors Association (NPFDA) Lifetime Achievement Award during the group’s awards reception Wednesday at the annual Protein Convention and Showcase in Atlanta.
• Each year, NPFDA recognizes individuals for a lifetime of contributions to the protein industry.
• Perdue is the 33rd recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, joining his dad, Frank Perdue, who was the first person recognized in 1991.
• “My grandfather, Arthur W. Perdue, built our business on quality, integrity and trust, and my father transformed the industry.