The document discusses sustainability initiatives in the United Kingdom and France to reduce antibiotic use and carbon footprint. In the UK, Red Tractor Assurance works to ensure antibiotics are used responsibly and as little as possible in beef farming through standards, inspections, and veterinary reviews. In France, Moy Park Food Service is working to reduce the carbon footprint of beef production through a multi-country initiative measuring farm carbon footprints, testing best practices, and communicating results to avoid 120,000 tons of CO2 emissions over 10 years. Both countries aim to improve practices through industry standards, measurement, and knowledge sharing.

1. United Kingdom:
Reducing Use of Antibiotics
France:
Improving Carbon Footprint
Global Sustainability Impacts -
A Multi-Country Perspective

2. United Kingdom
Reducing use of antibiotics
Jess Sloss
Senior Technical Manager
Red Tractor Assurance

3. Red Tractor Assurance
• Whole chain assurance –
from farm to pack
• >24000 members in Beef
and Lamb scheme
• Red Tractor logo on >£14bn
British food and drink
What we do:
• Standards of good agricultural
practice
• Standards licensed to independent
certification bodies
• All farms receive inspection against
all Red Tractor standards at least every
18 months

4. Responsible Use of Antibiotics
Antimicrobial resistance is a global threat
to human and animal health
Proactive health planning
• Annual review of health, performance and
medicine usage with veterinary surgeon
• Highest Priority Critically Important Antibiotics
can only be used as a last resort, demonstrated
by C&S testing
Ensuring that antibiotics are used as little as
possible but as much as necessary

5. Learnings
• UK beef sector is a low user of antibiotics
but need to prove it
• Impact of RUMA Targets Taskforce
project
• Communication with vets as important
as communication with farmers
• Industry must be brought on the journey
and support change

6. France
Reducing Carbon Footprint
Estelle Rabourdin
Director of Quality & Environment
Moy Park Food Service division

7. Moy Park Beef Orléans (MBO)
• Belongs to Moy Park – A European
food company mainly involved in Poultry
• Located in France, MBO produces
each year 45000 tons of ground Beef for
McDonald’s
• Sourcing beef in 3 European
countries and deeply involved in
Sustainability initiatives

8. Beef Carbon initiative
Objective: Reducing Beef Carbon footprint by 15%
over 10 years
• 4 Countries: France, Italy, Ireland and Spain
• Carbon measurement tools
• Calculation of Carbon footprint of 2000 beef farms
• 170 innovative farms to test best practices and
measure impact
Share, communicate and spread practices to allow
120 000 tons of CO2 avoided
Contact Jean-Baptiste Dolle – IDELE

9. Learnings
To help farmers understand their impact,
share and improve their practices and
communicate their know-how
Stronger together