European Feather And Down Association Issued New Standards For "Live Plucking"

Live plucking

A new standard has been issued. The standard is called the "European feather and feather Association's relevant standards for tracing the origin of feather and feather". It came into effect in January 1, 2011. The standard traced down the feather and feather sources of feather products. The feather and its products from live duck and goose will not be allowed to enter the European market.

This may set up a new barrier to animal protection in Europe, which will bring certain impact to our export eiderdown.

Enterprises that export down products and products in China should pay high attention and take effective measures to deal with them.

Export down

And products enterprises should actively increase their external publicity and communication through various channels, introduce the real situation of production and processing to the European and American consumers, intensify supervision over the raw material acquisition, production and processing processes of enterprises, establish a traceability system for raw materials, and make production enterprises respect the laws and consumer needs of animals in Europe or other countries or regions, strictly regulate the production of animals according to international standards and the laws of European countries and consumers, and the relevant standards of the European feather and feather Association traceability of feather and feather sources.