Everything your association does is
based on priorities in our strategic
plan. NARA’s mission is to advocate
for a sustainable food chain, public
health and the environment through
the production and marketing of our
members’ products and services.
you were able to join us. If not, the series is posted to the
members-only section of our website.
Promoting rendering’s sustainability gained much
attention in NARA’s communications work this year.
An outstanding peer-reviewed scientific article on our
industry’s social, environmental and economic sustainability
gained wide media attention. Published in Animal Frontiers, it
was authored by our own Anna Wilkinson and David Meeker.
The article featured the many ways rendered products are used
daily and how rendering contributes to the livestock industry’s
ability to provide more than food to eat. This important
article helps make rendering’s sustainability story more easily
accessible to those learning about our industry.
NARA is entering the podcast world and we’ll launch our
own rendering podcast later this fall. It’s called “The Invisible
Industry,” with the tag line “Where we discuss and educate on
everything you didn’t know you didn’t know about rendering.”
You’ll hear more soon and be sure to tune in.
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market access negotiations for bovine meat and bone meal
(MBM) with Peru, Colombia and Ecuador.
The new Biden administration cited some of our
challenging foreign market barriers in its important 2021
National Trade Estimates Report. Included were the EU’s ban
on U.S. tallow imports, Indonesia’s registration and inspection
requirements, and Thailand’s individual plant inspection
requirements. This report helps guide the president in
resolving trade issues.
I want to congratulate the Canadian rendering industry
for achieving negligible bovine spongiform encephalopathy
(BSE) risk status from the World Organization for Animal Health
(OIE) this past year. Another important milestone was reached
when the European Commission officially relaxed its feed ban
to reauthorize use of porcine processed animal protein
(PAP) in poultry feed and use of poultry PAP in pig feed. Use
of ruminant gelatin was also approved in nonruminant feed.
This year, NARA’s political program promoted rendering’s
sustainability as climate legislation was developed in Congress
to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and transition to a zero or
very low carbon economy. The association continued to work
with a variety of coalitions to advance our interests.
With the challenge of having in-person meetings over
the past year, NARA worked to bring value directly to our
members through more virtual opportunities to connect. For
example, visitors were not permitted into the U.S. Capitol
building due to COVID-19, so NARA’s annual Washington,
D.C. fly-In couldn’t occur last June. Instead, NARA brought
decision-makers to members through a virtual Summer
Speaker Series on issues important to our industry. I hope
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