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P 29 The Impacts of National and <strong>International</strong> Standards on Organic<br />

Broiler Production in Developing Countries: Turkey Case<br />

Kadir Erensoy, Hakan Bayraktar, Çiğdem Şeremet Tuğalay<br />

Ege University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Animal Science., Bornova, İzmir,<br />

Turkey<br />

Abstract<br />

The characteristics of the organic chicken production process pretty differ than from the<br />

conventional. Chicken is deemed organic when it has been produced in accordance with a<br />

certain standards. The relationship between organic market and national standards became more<br />

important in last decade. For example most organic standards recommend the use of suitable<br />

breeds for an organic production whereas EU organic livestock regulation requires breeds for<br />

meat production to be of a strain known to be slow growing. There are also minimum slaughter<br />

ages for organically kept poultry, this is 81 days for fattening chickens in EU standards and 63<br />

days in BIO-SUISSE. Housing and feeding are important criterias in fattening poultry breeding,<br />

but they vary in existing organic standards. All organic standards state that ideally 100% of the<br />

diet should be organic, but give some allowance for some non-organic components of the diet<br />

under the current situation. Health issues in organic broiler production are controversial. EU and<br />

IFOAM regulations permit to use antibiotics whereas USDA NOP prohibits.<br />

As shown there are many differences among standards. Establishing an organic poultry market<br />

and improving requires a careful and gradual approach. The aim of this article is to give<br />

knowledge about certain requirements for the organic broiler production in different standards<br />

and highlights the some problems on organic broiler production.<br />

Keywords: Organic broiler production, organic standards, genotype, housing, feeding, health.<br />

Introduction<br />

The relationship between organic market and national standards became more important in last<br />

decade. Although Turkey is one of the largest poultry producers in the world, share of the organic<br />

egg and chicken market is less than %1 yet. The first national legislation on organic animal<br />

production published in 2005 and it has been improved according to the EU standards and came<br />

into force in 2010 finally. The term organic is clearly defined in EU law and standards have<br />

been developed in Turkey in compliance with that EU law. The Turkish Standards implement<br />

Regulation (EC) 1804/99, including several more stringent requirements.<br />

The genetic material needed for commercial poultry production is provided from the international<br />

breeding companies in Turkey. Hence, only one breeding government research station is performed<br />

the genetic selection for egg production with national breeds. The grandparent generation of<br />

layers and broilers are imported to Turkey from the international breeding companies. Broilers<br />

have a similar production chain as for layers. Turkey does not have a national stock of the<br />

grandparent generation for broiler production.<br />

The characteristics of the organic chicken production process pretty differ than from the<br />

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