Swedish Centre for Animal Welfare (SCAW)
NCP Slaughter and killing
SCAW is Sweden's national contact point for slaughter and other types of killing.
EFSA reports and other material concerning fish slaugther
Here you find links to reports concerning fish slaughter Fish welfare in European Aquaculture Welfare of farmed fish Knowledge gaps and research needs for the welfare of farmed fish Food Safety
Agri4D - Call for abstracts
The Agri4D 2025 conference has now opened the call for abstracts and concept notes. This year will focus on nurturing regenerative food systems that are resilient to climate change and have low
NordCAW
NordCAW (Nordic Network for Communicating Animal Welfare) is a Nordic co-operation to communicate within animal welfare. SCAW is one of the initiators of the project.
NordCAW seminar 2025
The 2025 NordCAW seminar will be held in Denmark during the fall and the topic will be pig welfare. More information about the seminar will be published here further on.
EFSA reports
EFSAs' reports about animal welfare at the time of slauther and killing Here you will find links to EFSAs' reports related to animal welfare at slaughter and killing: Slaughter of animals: poultry
SCAW:s 10 year anniversary
The Swedish Centre for Animal Welfare, SCAW, arranged a seminar the 8th of May 2019 to celebrate our 10 year anniversary. You can see the presentations by clicking on the links below. You will learn
Opinions of the Council
Here you can find the opinions of the Scientific Council for Animal Welfare The opinions are written in Swedish. If there is no link to a pdf-file, you can find the opinion in the report series of
More material on slaughter and killing
EU material In some cases, there are stricter national regulations than in the EU. If Swedish regulations are stricter, these are the ones that apply in Sweden. The EU material below should therefore
Previous projects
SCAW has previously participated in several projects and collaborations. You can find a short summary of them here.
Reference groups
SCAW is represented in several working and reference groups. SCAW has representatives in: The Ministry of Trade and Industry's national animal welfare network The Ministry of Trade and Industry's