This article is part of the supplement: The role of the veterinarian in animal welfare. Animal welfare: too much or too little? The 21st Symposium of the Nordic Committee for Veterinary Scientific Cooperation (NKVet) .

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International cooperation in animal welfare: the Welfare Quality^® project

Harry J Blokhuis^1,2

¹Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, P.O.Box 7038, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden

²Animal Sciences Group, Wageningen UR, P.O.Box 65, 8200 AB Lelystad, The Netherlands

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from The role of the veterinarian in animal welfare. Animal welfare: too much or too little? The 21st Symposium of the Nordic Committee for Veterinary Scientific Cooperation (NKVet)
Værløse, Denmark. 24–25 September 2007

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2008, 50(Suppl 1):S10doi:10.1186/1751-0147-50-S1-S10

Published:	19 August 2008

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Consumers' perception of food quality is not only determined by its overall nature and safety but also by the welfare status of the animal from which it was produced. In other words, animal welfare is an important attribute of an overall 'food quality concept'. Recent surveys carried out by the European Commission (e.g. [1,2]) as well as studies within Welfare Quality^®, confirm that animal welfare is an issue of considerable significance for European consumers and that European citizens show a strong commitment to animal welfare.