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Executive Summary

The Australian meat chicken industry has expanded significantly over the past thirty years.  At the same time, community interest in environmental issues has heightened.  To ensure the long-term sustainability of the industry and of individual farms, it is important that environmental concerns are carefully managed.

 To enable a co-ordinated approach to environmental standards within the industry, the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC) has funded the development of a National Environmental Management System for the Meat Chicken Industry (Meat Chicken EMS).  The Meat Chicken EMS comprises of:
 

• Manual of Good Environmental Practice
• An example Environmental Management Plan and Explanatory Notes
• Generic Environmental Management Plan
• An Environmental Risk Assessment Workbook so individuals can self assess their individual enterprises and identify any environmental improvement or monitoring that is required.
• Management tools upon which farmers can base their own farm-specific plans, including Meat Chicken Environmental Technical Notes, Mass Balance Excel Spreadsheet for Meat Chicken Farms, Example Environmental Management Plan and Generic Environmental Management Plan.
• Recommendations for training industry participants in environmental awareness and environmental management.


Specific documentation relevant to each State will need to be developed prior to implementation of this Meat Chicken EMS.

 To oversee the development of the Meat Chicken EMS and to provide feedback on document development, an industry based steering committee was assigned to the project.

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