A new Swiss law, which takes effect this month with a two-year phase-in, will require labeling of animal-based products based on animal welfare considerations.
Now, everything in the meat aisle is fair game, and products will carry a label indicating that the animals underwent specific procedures like castration, tail docking, teeth clipping, dehorning, beak clipping, or castration without anesthesia, stunning, or pain relief, including beef, dairy, pork, chicken, and eggs. The new labeling law also applies to frog legs removed without anesthesia, and while foie gras production was already banned in Switzerland, imports will also require the same call-outs.
The European nation already required pain relief for domestically produced animal products, but the new labeling law will make it more transparent how imported meat, dairy, and eggs are produced.
