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Annual Meeting
Category: News/Events
... buffet Draft Agenda: EFFAB's future and tasks - proposal to the Annual Meeting Code-EFABAR what does it mean in the practice - experience of a cattle, pig and poultry breeder Animal Health Data ... -
Embryo transfer (ET)
Category: Themes/Themes
... ovulations by hormonal treatment. ET is used to disseminate desirable genes from superior female animals from various species (horses, cattle, sheep, goats and pigs). The main advantages are: - increase ... -
Artificial insemination (AI)
Category: Themes/Themes
Artificial insemination (AI) is the most important reproduction biotechnology for genetic improvement in domestic animals. Progeny or sib testing based on AI is a prerequisite for an accurate estimation ... -
Sheep and goats
Category: Breeding is..../Breeding is...
When building scenarios, we take into account main driving forces and restrictions. The main driving forces in sheep and goat breeding are: - Consumer demand for safe and lean animal products - Dairies ... -
Latest News
Category: News/Latest News
... The EC clearly recognises the importance of animal breeding and reproduction in the European society. EFFAB certainly has played and is still playing an important role in this. Keeping animal breeding ... -
Animal Cloning
Category: About us/Activities
Opinion to European Group on Ethics Opinion to European Food Safety Authority Letter to President European Commission Opinion article in Nature Biotechnology Related documents 2007 Voskamp at cloning ... -
EADGENE
Category: Projects/Projects
... to the cow genome effort (Bovine Genome Annotation Jamboree 23-25 May 2007, Hinxton) List of animal data available by Club of Interest members. Launch of new website (Public + internal) www.eadgene.info ... -
Cloning
Category: Themes/Themes
... and economic reasons, and partly because there is no public approval of such developments at present. Cloning in Farm Animals ... -
Definition
Category: Breeding is..../Sustainable Breeding and Reproduction
Sustainability in animal breeding and reproduction means the extent to which animal breeding and reproduction, as managed by professional organisations, contribute to maintenance and good care of animal ... -
Aquaculture
Category: Breeding is..../Sustainable Breeding Scenarios
... - Safety and consumer acceptability - Acceptable price - Maintain animal integrity The main restrictions are: - Limit in increase of inbreeding/generation to 0,5 to 1 % per generation (FAO) Based on ... -
Poultry
Category: Breeding is..../Sustainable Breeding Scenarios
When building scenarios, we take into account main driving forces and restrictions. The main driving forces in poultry breeding are: - Efficient production for different markets - Animal health and welfare ... -
Environment
Category: Breeding is..../Criteria for Sustainable Breeding and Reproduction
... domesticated and wild animals of the same species. ... -
Efficiency
Category: Breeding is..../Criteria for Sustainable Breeding and Reproduction
... Animal breeding and reproduction has to respond to new demands, adopt new techniques in response to social, economic or competitive pressures, exploit new opportunities that offer greater productivity, ... -
Product Quality
Category: Breeding is..../Criteria for Sustainable Breeding and Reproduction
The approach to quality and identification of livestock products will change: today, quality of products (including processing), animal and territory are only linked in a few food chain systems, such as ... -
Environment
Category: Themes/Themes
... to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and on systems of animal husbandry, crops that can be grown as animal feed, or on potential diseases and parasites. Competition between land use for subsidised energy ... -
Pigs
Category: Breeding is..../Sustainable Breeding Scenarios
When building scenarios, we take into account main driving forces and restrictions. The main driving forces in pig breeding are: - Maintain genetic diversity - Animals robust and efficient in different ... -
Food Safety and Public Health
Category: Breeding is..../Criteria for Sustainable Breeding and Reproduction
The direct possibilities for influencing food safety and public health by farm animal breeding and reproduction are limited. Improving food safety will be possible by breeding in an indirect way, in decreasing ... -
Ruminants
Category: Breeding is..../Sustainable Breeding Scenarios
When building scenarios, we take into account main driving forces and restrictions. The main driving forces in dairy cattle breeding are: - Consumer acceptance - Production efficiency - Animal welfare ... -
Animal Health and Welfare
Category: Breeding is..../Criteria for Sustainable Breeding and Reproduction
It is important for breeding organisations to ensure the health and welfare of the animals they keep and select. The search for selectable traits, indicating species specific animal welfare is ongoing. ... -
Does the directive permit the patenting of life?
Category: Themes/Q and A
... and animals, are patentable under patent laws in Europe. Like with all patents, also the other patentability requirements have to be fulfilled, and this is never the case with just naturally occuring living ... -
What limits should be placed on patenting interventions on the genotype?
Category: Themes/Q and A
... may be patented if this could breach public order or morality. In addition, the directive excludes from patentability any processes for modifying the genetic identity of animals which are likely to cause ... -
What can be the effects of broad claims in animal breeding?
Category: Themes/Q and A
Although the few wide patents found today in this field particularly concern animals used as experimental models or bioreactors, there are also some examples of wide patents regarding breeding of farm ... -
Is the biotech directive in conflict with the biodiversity convention?
Category: Themes/Q and A
Only offspring of animals of which the DNA is changed due to a technological intervention, that does not happen naturally in nature, is patentable. Consequently, genetically modified animals and their ... -
Is a patent on a DNA marker possible?
Category: Themes/Q and A
... the protection of biotechnological inventions, being essentially biological processes for the production of animals (article 4.1.b and article 2.2). However, introgression may be used to move a gene inserted ... -
Does the directive give special advantages to biotechnology inventions?
Category: Themes/Q and A
... perceived problem areas are not in fact problems at all. The directive states that body organs, nor human beings, nor animal or plant varieties can be patented. Furthermore, in the directive it becomes ... -
But doesn't gene patenting stifle research?
Category: Themes/Q and A
... block fundamental research. Any breeder or any company has a free access to patented animals or genes and may experiment in order to develop a new application of the gene or to perfect a protected method. ... -
Does modern biotechnology really help patients?
Category: Themes/Q and A
... for disease can now be produced in large quantities. Previously, many of these preparations could be obtained only from animals (in the case of insulin, for instance), or from human tissue (as in the case ... -
Can animals be patented?
Category: Themes/Q and A
... improved method of selecting the best animals for their purposes. The utility of the DNA is not the genetic merit of the DNA, but in the invention of placing this easily selected sequence next to a gene ... -
What can patents on biotechnological processes mean for farm animal breeding?
Category: Themes/Q and A
Of the numerous patents on animal breeding and reproduction inventions, many are already distributed in the form of processes and some are licensed, so that effects on the breeding sector are easier to ... -
Can one patent an animal and its offspring after inserting worthless DNA close to commercially inter
Category: Themes/Q and A
If you put a piece of "worthless' DNA next to a gene or region of the genome of economic interest in an animal, the DNA of this animal is modified. Would it be possible to get a patent on this animal, ... -
Benefits for members
Category: Membership/Membership
EFFAB maintains and creates opportunities for a strong business climate for the European farm Animal Breeding and Reproduction Industry EFFAB is a unique organisation in representing the needs of animal ... -
Biodiversity
Category: Themes/Themes
... traditional breeds and it may also be valuable to have discussion on the perceived positive and negative opportunities of some system of “animal breeder’s rights” in this regard. *"Dynamics of livestock ... -
Definition and aims of The Code
Category: The Code/The Code
European farm animal breeders have agreed a Code of Good Practice. The Code sets out the goals of animal breeding organisations, the way in which these goals are pursued, and the rules or standards that ... -
Biotechnology
Category: Themes/Themes
Biotechnologies can be defined as technologies intended to change the biological functioning of animals, plants or micro-organisms. Within animal production, the aim may be to change: 1. What the animals ... -
Home
Category: Home/Home
Registration to Annual Meeting is now open. The European Forum of Farm Animal Breeders (EFFAB) is an independent European forum for farm animal reproduction and selection organisations (industry and farmer’s ... -
Welfare
Category: Themes/Themes
Animal welfare: integrity Animal integrity is defined as "the wholeness and completeness of the species-specific balance of the creature, as well as the animal’s capacity to maintain itself independently ... -
Scenarios
Category: Themes/Themes
... market, technological, biotechnological, animal welfare, management, political, economical, legal and societal developments may force animal production systems to change. In order to be able to consider ... -
Ethics of Breeding
Category: Themes/Themes
Sustainable Farm Animal Breeding, SEFABAR In essence, sustainability is "characteristic of states or processes that can be maintained over time with the right kind of management". It therefore indicates ... -
Technology Transfer
Category: Themes/Themes
... in the practice. In the Network of Excellence EADGENE (animal disease genomics) we are responsible for industry-academia interaction and technology transfer. Research vs. Industry Benefits from collaboration ... -
CODE-EFABAR
Category: Projects/Finished Projects
Code EFABAR is a Code of Good Practice for Farm Animal Breeding and Reproduction organizations. This Code has been developed in a joint EU funded project with farm animal breeders and professional input ... -
History of The Code
Category: The Code/The Code
The Code of Good Practice for farm animal breeding and reproduction organisations has been developed in a joint EU funded project with farm animal breeders and professional input on communication, certification ... -
SEFABAR
Category: Projects/Finished Projects
SEFABAR is an acronym that comes from the words Sustainable European Farm Animal Breeding And Reproduction. SEFABAR was EU funded from December 2000 - December 2003. SEFABAR was a thematic research ... -
ELSA
Category: Projects/Finished Projects
The project "The future developments in farm animal breeding and reproduction and its ethical, legal and consumer implications" (ELSA) lasted from 1998-1999 and was financed by the EU 4th Framework programme ... -
Patent Directive Workshop
Category: Projects/Finished Projects
On 29 May 1998, core specialists in patenting and animal breeding have discussed the EU directive for biotechnological inventions. To read the proceedings of this workshop click here ... -
Transparency
Category: About us/Activities
Sustainability has been the basic consideration for the development of a Code of Good Practice for Farm Animal Breeding and Reproduction (Code-EFABAR) Applicable in small and large organizations Applicable ... -
What is EFFAB?
Category: About us/About us
EFFAB EFFAB (The European Forum of Farm Animal Breeders) is an independent European forum for farm animal reproduction and selection organisations (industry and farmer's cooperatives), including companies ... -
Sustainability
Category: About us/Activities
We have developed definitions and general scenarios for sustainable farm animal breeding and reproduction, in cooperation with animal breeders, animal breeding scientists, specialists and organizations ... -
Technology Transfer
Category: About us/Activities
Industry/cooperative's participation in research projects. Promotion of research results to be forwarded to/taken up by/implemented in the practice. In the Network of Excellence EADGENE (animal disease ... -
Competitiveness
Category: About us/Activities
We develop opinions about research that is important for farm animal breeding and reproduction organisations (industry, cooperatives) in ruminants, pigs, poultry, aquaculture At the short, medium and long ... -
Finnish Animal Breeding Association
Category: Contact / Members
Finnish Animal Breeding Association, M. Saynajarvi, Cattle Pigs ...
