International Report By Martin Alm, President, World Renderers Organization
The World Keeps Turning
The COVID-19 pandemic still holds the whole world in its hands. Despite the
ongoing vaccination successes in the United States, United Kingdom, and Israel,
many people still face lockdowns, closed restaurants and shops, limited sporting
and other extracurricular activities, working from home, and travel restrictions.
It seems as if the world is standing still, yet the Earth never stops turning—and
renderers never stop rendering. Trucks are going out and coming in, raw material
is still being processed, and administrative work and documentation are being kept
up-to-date. The same goes for all national trade organizations, including the World
Renderers Organization (WRO), which has not stopped working in the background.
Many national and international meetings and conferences have been canceled or
postponed, leaving no chance for WRO to explain its work over the past year or
developments currently in the pipeline. Fortunately, WRO still has the opportunity
to report regularly about global projects here in Render magazine.
LEAP Partnership
The Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance (LEAP) Partnership
under the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) is a
continual process to assess environmental performance in livestock production. LEAP
began as a project from 2012–2015 but was extended due to its success. WRO joined
this partnership in its third phase and has worked actively since 2019. A precondition
for LEAP is that global partners be acknowledged as international associations by FAO.
WRO was not officially recognized until this March. In the future, this involvement
could be used to become an acknowledged FAO partner as well, similar to the one
that exists between WRO and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).
Changes in the OIE Animal Health Code
The 88th OIE General Session was held at the end of May and was a virtual
meeting once again. WRO First Vice President Lucas Cypriano joined on behalf of
the organization. In the past, he coordinated WRO statements to OIE, especially
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on its animal health code related to
bovine spongiform encephalopathy
(BSE), which were well received and led
to OIE changing its BSE code. Recently,
WRO sent another letter to OIE with
the proposal to replace the term animal
“waste” to animal “by-products” in its
aquatic code. OIE must understand
that renderers do not render “waste”
into a valuable feed ingredient, and
that rendering is not a waste business.
Increasing sensitivity on the use of this
term in relation to feed changes the
consumer´s perception worldwide.
There needs to be more effort to change
this old terminology into a sustainable
story of how valuable by-products from
land and aquatic animals are processed
into nutritional and safe feed ingredients
for pets and farmed animals. With the
changing of the OIE wording, WRO
can hopefully alter the thinking of
national chief veterinary officers and
impact legislation in various national
governments. WRO also calls on all
renderers to change this terminology
when corresponding with customers,
slaughterhouses, and veterinarians.
The intensive cooperation with OIE
that began under former WRO President
Fernando Mendizabal’s leadership
(on avian influenza) has continued
and will so with incoming president
Cypriano. This ensures WRO´s role on a
global basis becomes more visible and
constructive.
New Cooperation with the UN
The UN announced on its website
that the Food Systems Summit
(FSS) 2021 “will convene . . . to raise
global awareness and shape global
commitments that can transform food
systems to resolve hunger, reduce
diet-related diseases, and restore the
planetary health. . . . The FSS will follow
these action tracks:
1. Ensuring access to safe and
nutritious food
2. Shifting to sustainable
consumption patterns
3. Boosting nature-positive
production
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