Animal Welfare in pig production

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1 Animal Welfare in pig production May, 2014, Herning (Denmark) Tutor s list Training activities on Animal Welfare mainly for EU Member States under the 'Better Training for Safer Food' Initiative. Service Contract N Contractor: lstituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'abruzzo e del Molise "G.Caporale" Sub-contractors: Aarhus University (DK), Scotland s Rural College (UK), Università degli Studi di Milano (I)

2 Name: Inger Anneberg Education: journalist, master in anthropology, Ph.D. Organisation: Aarhus University, Department of Animal Science Current job title: Post-doctoral researcher Name: Charles Bourns Organisation: Copa-Cogeca Current job title: Vice-Chair of the Copa-Cogeca Working Party Years of professional activity: Language skills* : charlesbourns@yahoo.co.uk Name: Silvia D Albenzio Education: Degree in Philosophy, Master in Human Resources Management Organisation: Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell Abruzzo e del Molise G. Caporale (IZSAM) - Teramo, Italy Years of professional activity: 22 Current job title: Senior Trainer Italian: 5 s.dalbenzio@izs.it Inger Anneberg is a trained journalist and Master in Anthropology, working with qualitative research at Aarhus University, Department of Animal Science. Her main focus is on communication between farmer and society about animal welfare and how knowledge on animal welfare is created. The theme of her PhD is actions of and interactions between authorities and livestock farmers in relation to animal welfare. Charles Bourns is Vice-Chair of the Copa-Cogeca Working Party. Copa (European farmers) and Cogeca (European agricooperatives) are two organisations representing 30 million farmers and their families as well as around 40,000 cooperatives. Copa-Cogeca s aims to defend the general interests of agriculture, maintain and develop relations with EU-institutions as well as with representative organisations at EU level. Working for 22 years in the field of Human Resources Management, she joined IZSAM in She has a strong experience in: team building & team management, research on training needs, skills balance & vocational guidance, planning & management of training initiatives both with traditional and elearning methods, implementation, organisation & management of national and transnational partnerships, teaching, organisation & management of press conferences, congresses and workshops at regional, national and European level, and also participation in them as speakers. Since 2007, she is involved in planning and management of DG SANCO training projects. 1/4

3 Name: Antoni Dalmau Bueno Education: DVM, PhD Organisation: IRTA - Institut de Recerca I Tecnologia Agroalimentàries (IRTA) Years of professional activity: 8 Current job title: Animal Welfare Research Scientist Spanish: 5 antoni.dalmau@irta.cat Name: Paolo Ferrari Education: M.Sc. Degree in Sciences of animal production Organisation: Fondazione CRPA Studi Ricerche, Italy Years of professional activity: 25 Current job title: Researcher Italian: 5 Spanish: 2 French: 2 p.ferrari@crpa.it Animal Welfare Research Scientist at IRTA since 2005, Antoni Dalmau has matured a strong background on: - animal welfare during transport and slaughter - farm and abattoir assessment of animal welfare - fear, pain, social and feeding behaviour of farm animals and wild ruminants. His research activities are mainly focused on animal welfare issues, such as: stunning prior to slaughter with nitrogen; effect on animal welfare and meat quality in pigs; containability and aversiveness of different gas mixtures used for the stunning of slaughter weight pigs; dietary supplementation of natural tranquillizers on pigs with different stress genotypes; effect on animal welfare and on meat technological and sensorial quality; animal welfare and product quality optimisation in the carbon dioxide stunning of pigs and lambs. Paolo Ferrari is senior researcher and project manager of the Research Centre for Animal Production (Animal Housing Division of the Department Agricultural Economics and Engineering), focusing the following research activities: pig welfare assessment; socio-economic implications of measures and initiatives to promote pig welfare; rearing systems and technologies for organic and free range pig production; climate control in pig houses; manure and waste management in pig farms; design and costs of buildings and equipment for pig farming. He has been involved in the Welfare Quality and EconWelfare FP7 projects and since 2010 he has been supporting the coordination and has been involved as researcher in 2 DG SANCO projects Renovation and promoting high quality control posts in the European Union and Development of EU wide animal transport certification system and renovation of control posts in the European Union coordinated by CRPA. 2/4

4 Name: Mette S. Herskin Education: M.Sc., PhD Organisation: Aarhus University, Aarhus University, Department of Animal Science Current job title: Senior scientist Name: Lene J. Pedersen Education: M.Sc., PhD Organisation: Aarhus University, Aarhus University, Department of Animal Science Current job title: Senior scientist Since 2008 she has been a senior scientist at Aarhus University, Dept. Animal Science. Her research links ethology and veterinary science, focusing on behavior, pain, and disease in farm animals. She has been among the pioneers in the study of behavioural expressions of pain and nociceptive thresholds across animal species, thereby encompassing considerable scientific challenge. As part of this work, she is currently board member of the IASP-SIG focusing on Non-primate pain. During the last 10+ years, she has been responsible for the development and validation of equipment and set-up for testing nociceptive thresholds based on behavioural expressions in pigs and cattle. Recently, the work has been expanded to include experimentally induced pain states. She has taken the initiative to integrate and prioritize the study of pain and disease especially within the field of animal models - in the research group for Animal Behavior and Stress Biology. Furthermore, she has established interdisciplinary cooperation between research groups focusing on ethology, veterinary as well as biomedical research in pigs focusing on the pig as translational animal species. Here, one of her major scientific goals is to mediate cooperation between the otherwise bound research fields. Lene Juul Pedersen has a PhD degree in Animal Science from the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University in Copenhagen. She is currently a senior researcher at Aarhus University, Department of Animal Science. She has performed applied and basic research within the field of animal behaviour, welfare and stress biology for more than 20 years. Dr. Pedersen is the author or co-author of a total of 181 publications of which 72 is peer reviewed publications in scientific journals. She has served as supervisor of students at all academic levels from bachelors to PhD students. 3/4

5 Name: Dale Sandercock Education: BSc. Ph.D Organisation: Scotland s Rural College (SRUC) Current job title: Senior Research Scientist dale.sandercock@sruc.ac.uk Name: Simon Turner Education: B.Sc. (Hons) 2.1 in Animal Science. M.Sc. (Distinction) Applied Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare. Ph.D. Organisation: Scotland s Rural College SRUC Years of professional activity: 14 Current job title: Senior Researcher simon.turner@sruc.ac.uk Senior research scientist with over 15 years field and laboratory based post-doctoral research experience leading and undertaking veterinary research studies on the neurobiology of stress and pain in farm species (pigs and poultry). Most recent research project FareWellDock is a large EU collaboration that aims to characterize the risks associated with tail docking and tail biting in pigs and develop strategies that decrease tail biting risk through environment enrichment and better early warning tools to help farmers stop tail docking. Work carried out by his research group at SRUC will characterize traumatic neuroma development in tail docked pigs and assess consequences of tail docking on short and long-term tail pain sensitivity. His research interest lies in understanding the causes and consequences of individual differences in social behaviour, particularly the influence of selective breeding on traits which affect animal and human welfare. His research addresses long-standing welfare issues by assessing the role that selective breeding can play in producing animals more suited to the environments in which they are housed. He works closely with major breeding companies developing approaches to measure behaviour and welfare on large numbers of animals and assessing the likely success and wider implications of breeding for novel traits. Current areas of work focus on quantifying the genetic contribution to post-mixing aggressiveness in pigs and the desirability of breeding against this trait and developing methods of measuring beef cattle temperament in response to handling under European production conditions. He also has an interest in developing methods to assess welfare in extensively managed beef cattle and play a role in co-ordinating knowledge transfer activities from SRUC welfare-related work commissioned by the Scottish Government. *(1: Fair - 2: Moderate - 3: Good - 4: Excellent - 5: Mother tongue) 4/4