SAN Standard for Sustainable Cattle Production Systems Approved
30 August 2010
The Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN) has released a new standard for sustainable practices for cattle farming in Africa, Asia/Oceania and Latin America. The SAN Standard for Sustainable Cattle Production Systems applies to beef, dairy or dual purpose cattle farms under free grazing and semi-confined production systems and covers the products beef, dairy products and leather. Cattle farms seeking certification audits will be evaluated based on the 135 criteria (including 22 critical criteria) of both the SAN - Sustainable Agriculture Standard and the new sector-specific standard.
To develop the standard, a public consultation process was conducted in 2009 and 2010 according to the ISEAL Alliance’s Code of Good Practice for Setting Social and Environmental Standards with two 60-day rounds of online consultation, local workshops and trial audits. More than 130 organizations of 34 countries posted a total of 3500 comments.
The document will soon be available online at www.sanstandards.org.
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