OREANDA-NEWS. IRU welcomes has welcomed new guidelines to assess the fitness of pigs for transport. The guidelines are the result of two years work involving IRU, veterinary, animal welfare and agriculture & food stakeholders. The highly visual guidelines, which use drawings, photographs and simple text, are designed to provide easy to understand help and advice to professionals involved in the transportation of pigs and complement existing EU law.

Ensuring a high level of animal welfare during transport is in everyone’s interest. Transporting animals that are unfit not only causes unnecessary suffering to the animals but could also lead to penalties, financial losses and the withdrawal of the operators’ and drivers’ authorisations to transport animals.