Exploring methods of measuring and collecting data relating to imported food production standards
Appendix 2: List of materials shortlisted in the screening
Appendix two list of materials shortlisted in the screening in the Exploring methods of measuring and collecting data relating to imported food production standards.
Animal welfare
The literature found in the searches for animal welfare requirements within standards and trade agreements is outlined in Table A2-1.
Table A2-1. List of (initially relevant) literature that were found in the searches for animal welfare requirements within standards and trade agreements.
| Number | Literature identified | Inclusion status |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | UK-New Zealand FTA Chapter 6: Animal Welfare - GOV.UK | Included |
| 2 | Chapter 25: Animal Welfare and Antimicrobial Resistance | Included |
| 3 | The EU—Chile Free Trade Agreement—a Boost for Animal Welfare | Included |
| 4 | UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement: A Welsh Government Perspective 2022 | Excluded |
| 5 | The Externalisation of Animal Welfare Standards by the EU through Free Trade Agreements Cases of Ukraine, Chile, and Canada | Included |
| 6 | Animal Welfare, Bilateral Trade Agreements, and Sustainable Development Goal Two | Excluded |
| 7 | Animal welfare regulations and practices in 7 (potential) trade-agreement partners of the EU with a focus on laying hens, broilers, and pigs | Excluded |
| 8 | Animal welfare and developing countries: opportunities for trade in high-welfare products from developing countries | Included |
| 9 | Defining core standards for Animal Welfare in Trade Policy | Included |
| 10 | Recommendations for the UK Trade Policy for Free Trade Agreements that protect animal welfare and comply with WTO rules | Excluded |
| 11 | Animal welfare in poultry production systems: impact of EU standards on world trade | Excluded |
| 12 | UK-Canada Free Trade Agreement: The UK’s Strategic Approach | Excluded |
| 13 | RSPCA RESPONSE TO THE LORDS SUB COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS: UK CPTPP FTA | Included |
| 14 | The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement | Included |
| 15 | Governing antimicrobial resistance: a narrative review of global governance mechanisms | Included |
| 16 | The Mandatory Use of Closed Circuit Television in Slaughterhouses (England) Regulations 2018 | Included |
| 17 | CCTV cameras in slaughterhouses: Modest benefits for animal welfare | Included |
| 18 | CCTV to be introduced in all slaughterhouses in England in 2018 | Excluded |
| 19 | The Need for and Possible Implementation of a Workable System of CCTV in All Slaughterhouses in Wales | Excluded |
| 20 | Petition P-04-433 CCTV in Slaughterhouses January 2020 | Excluded |
| 21 | Overview of animal welfare standards and initiatives in selected EU and third countries | Included |
| 22 | The globalisation of farm animal welfare | Included |
| 23 | Poultry welfare scenario in South America: norms and regulations | Excluded |
| 24 | Live Animal Export Final Stage Impact Assessment | Excluded |
| 25 | Review of Livestock Welfare Indicators Relevant for the Australian Live Export Industry | Included |
| 26 | Benchmarking Farm Animal Welfare—A Novel Tool for Cross-Country Comparison Applied to Pig Production and Pork Consumption | Included |
| 27 | Trade and Agriculture Commission: Final Report 2021 (chapter 4 specifically) | Excluded |
| 28 | Animal welfare indicators for sheep during sea transport: Monitoring health and behaviour | Excluded |
| 29 | Importance and Feasibility of Animal Welfare Measures from a Consumer Perspective in Germany | Excluded |
| 30 | Livestock Export Review Summary of submissions | Excluded |
| 31 | Animal welfare risks of global aquaculture | Excluded |
| 32 | 2021 National Trade Estimate Report on FOREIGN TRADE BARRIERS | Excluded |
| 33 | Animal Well-Being Issues Associated with International Trade, Production and Animal Health | Included |
| 34 | Metrics provide the key to improved farm animal welfare | Included |
| 35 | Livestock export permit systems and processes | Excluded |
| 36 | The Five Freedoms in the global animal agriculture market: Challenges and achievements as opportunities | Included |
| 37 | Identification of key performance indicators for on-farm animal welfare incidents: possible tools for early warning and prevention | Included |
| 38 | Farm to fork strategy: Animal welfare, EU trade policy, and public participation | Included |
| 39 | Israel Trade Priorities - May 2022 | Excluded |
| 40 | BRIEFING: MERCOSUR Animal Protection in EU Trade Negotiations | Excluded |
| 41 | Broiler and swine production: animal welfare legislation scenario | Included |
| 42 | Best practice framework for animal welfare certification schemes | Included |
| 43 | Malaysia Halal Country Report | Included |
| 44 | Animal Agriculture Laws on the Chopping Block: Comparing United States and Brazil | Included |
| 45 | Benchmarking farm animal welfare – Ethical considerations when developing a tool for cross-country comparison | Excluded |
| 46 | Analysis of Halal assurance management on imported food products in Malaysia | Excluded |
| 47 | Playing Chicken at the WTO: Defending an Animal Welfare-Based Trade Restriction Under GATT's Moral Exception | Excluded |
| 48 | Organic Export Info | Included |
| 49 | Animal welfare assurance programs in food production: a framework for assessing the options | Included |
| 50 | establishing an association between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Chile, of the other part | Included |
| 51 | British Lion Eggs | Included* |
| 52 | European Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (ERSB) | Included* |
| 53 | Red Tractor | Included* |
| 54 | Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef | Included* |
*Sustainability standards were additions to the list, after the screening exercise had been undertaken. These were included in the assessment for inclusion/exclusion.
Environmental sustainability
The literature found in the searches for environmental sustainability requirements within standards and trade agreements is outlined in Table A2-2.
Table A2-2. List of (initially relevant) literature that were found in the searches for environmental sustainability requirements within standards and trade agreements.
| Number | Literature identified | Inclusion status |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | UK-New Zealand FTA Chapter 22: Environment | Included |
| 2 | Enhancing sustainability in EU Free Trade Agreements: The case for a holistic approach | Included |
| 3 | Sustainability provisions in EU free trade agreements: Review of the European Commission action plan | Included |
| 4 | Trade and Sustainable Development in EFTA’s FTAs | Excluded |
| 5 | Free Trade, Environment, Agriculture, and Plurilateral Treaties: The Ambivalent Example of Mercosur, CETA, and the EU–Vietnam Free Trade Agreement | Included |
| 6 | Sustainability standards in global agrifood supply chains | Excluded |
| 7 | Environment and Regional Trade Agreements | Excluded |
| 8 | Agreement on Climate Change, Trade and Sustainability (ACCTS) negotiations. | Included |
| 9 | EU – New Zealand Trade Agreement: Unlocking sustainable economic growth | Included |
| 10 | Climate change and trade agreements: Friends or foes? | Excluded |
| 11 | Can Preferential Trade Agreements Address Climate Change? | Excluded |
| 12 | The Official Controls (Plant Protection Products) Regulations 2020: policy statement | Excluded |
| 13 | Regulation of Plant Protection Products in the UK after Brexit | Included |
| 14 | UK-New Zealand FTA: advice from Trade and Agriculture Commission | Included |
| 15 | A UK/US Free Trade Agreement and its impact on UK agriculture | Included |
| 16 | Trade and Agricultural Commission Final Report 2021 | Included |
| 17 | Top 10 Risks from a UK- US Trade Deal | Included |
| 18 | EU-Mercosur Trade agreement - factsheet on agriculture | Excluded |
| 19 | Food-specific import requirements | Excluded |
| 20 | Review of national food control plans in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and United States | Excluded |
| 21 | Designing Environmental Regulation of Agricultural Imports: |
Included |
| 22 | Are the sustainability criteria in the Swiss trade deal with Indonesia toothless? | Included |
| 23 | RISKIER BUSINESS: THE UK’S OVERSEAS LAND FOOTPRINT |
Excluded |
| 24 | National Food Strategy: The Plan | Excluded |
| 25 | Impact of food trade on climate | Included |
| 26 | Government response to the Trade and Agriculture Commission report | Included |
| 27 | The carbon footprint of imported food is more complicated than you think | Excluded |
| 28 | Greening imports: a UK carbon border approach | Excluded |
| 29 | Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: Questions and Answers | Excluded |
| 30 | TRADE AND CLIMATE CHANGE | Included |
| 31 | Europe’s Carbon Loophole | Included |
| 32 | Denmark ethics council calls for tax on red meat to fight 'ethical problem' of climate change | Excluded |
| 33 | Measuring and reporting environmental impacts: guidance for businesses | Excluded |
| 34 | Organisation Strategy for the Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH) 2015-2020 | Included |
| 35 | Is Free Trade an Obstacle to Carbon Neutrality?: How does Free Trade Affect the Environmental Footprint of Sweden, as a Part of the EU, in the Agricultural Sector? | Included |
| 36 | Carbon Taxation in Sweden | Excluded |
| 37 | EU Considers Carbon Tariff on Imports | Excluded |
| 38 | Carbon Footprint: exploring the UK’s contribution to climate change | Included |
| 39 | Which proposed climate policies are compatible with WTO rules? | Excluded |
| 40 | Food Policy on Trial: Fourth in the dock – Carbon Border Adjustment tax and food systems | Included |
| 41 | 15th June 2021 - JURY’S VERDICT AND SUMMARY | Excluded |
| 42 | Model-based risk-adjusted planning for sustainable agriculture under agricultural trade liberalization: Ukrainian case study | Excluded |
| 43 | The Fulfilments of European Standards about the Environment and Macedonia’s Progress | Included |
| 44 | Trade deals, carbon taxes and cakeism | Included* |
| 45 | EU Taxonomy for Sustainable Activities | Included* |
| 46 | GlobalG.A.P | Included* |
| 47 | Fair Trade International Climate Standard | Included* |
| 48 | Linking Environment and Food (LEAF) | Included* |
| 49 | Sustainable Agriculture Initiative (SAI) Farm Sustainability Assessment (FSA) | Included* |
| 50 | Rainforest Alliance - Sustainable Agriculture Standard | Included* |
| 51 | Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) | Included* |
| 52 | Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) | Included* |
| 53 | Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) | Included* |
| 54 | Roundtable on Responsible Soy Association Standard | Excluded* |
| 55 | Red Tractor | Included* |
| 56 | Soil Association | Included |
| 57 | UK - New Zealand FTA | Included |
| 58 | EU - Vietnam FTA | Included |
| 59 | EU - South Korea FTA | Included |
| 60 | EU - Mercosur FTA | Included |
| 61 | EU - Canada FTA | Included |
| 62 | EU - New Zealand FTA | Included |
| 63 | China - Costa Rica FTA | Included |
| 64 | Korea - Australia FTA | Included |
| 65 | US - Peru FTA | Included |
*Sustainability standards were additions to the list, after the screening exercise had been undertaken. These were included in the assessment for inclusion/exclusion.
Nutritional composition
The literature found in the searches for nutritional composition requirements within standards and trade agreements are outlined in Table A2-3.
Table A2-3. List of (initially relevant) literature that were found in the searches for nutritional composition requirements within standards and trade agreements.
| Number | Literature identified | Inclusion status |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nutrition declaration | Included |
| 2 | Front of package food labelling, international trade, and their impact on food security | Excluded |
| 3 | New NAFTA limits labelling for food and workplace chemicals | Included |
| 4 | Report Name: Food and Agricultural Import Regulations and Standards Country Report | Excluded |
| 5 | Technical guidance on nutrition labelling | Included |
| 6 | Why labels won't protect UK food standards from a US trade deal | Excluded |
| 7 | Nutrition labelling is a trade policy issue: lessons from an analysis of specific trade concerns at the World Trade Organisation | Included |
| 8 | Report pursuant to Section 42 of the Agriculture Act 2020 (web version) | Included |
| 9 | Brexit: Trade, Healthy Eating and Obesity | Soil Association | Included |
| 10 | Update on Chilean Advertising of Packaged Foods and Beverages | Included |
| 11 | The impact of Free Trade Agreements on British diets | Included |
| 12 | Joint association of food nutritional profile by Nutri-Score front-of-pack label and ultra-processed food intake with mortality: Moli-sani prospective cohort study | Excluded |
| 13 | Tensions and coalitions: A new trade agreement affects the policy space for nutrition in Vietnam | Included |
| 14 | Hollow Threats: Transnational Food and Beverage Companies’ Use of International Agreements to Fight Front-of-Pack Nutrition Labelling in Mexico and Beyond | Included |
| 15 | Emerging threats of global pre-emption to nutrition labelling | Included |
| 16 | The threat of a UK-US trade deal to managing non-communicable diseases | Included |
| 17 | Anatomy of Non-tariff Barriers in India–Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement: An Empirical Investigation | Excluded |
| 18 | Global Update on Nutrition Labelling | Included |
| 19 | Front-of-pack nutrition labelling to promote healthier diets: current practice and opportunities to strengthen regulation worldwide | Included |
| 20 | Arguments used by trade associations during the early development of a new front-of-pack nutrition labelling system in Brazil | Included |
| 21 | Nutrition Labelling UK Post-Deal Guidance - Brexit Information | Included |
| 22 | Nutrition labelling schemes used in Member States | Included |
| 23 | Manual to develop and implement front of pack nutrition labelling | Included |
| 24 | The Nordic Countries Support the Development of a Harmonised Front-Of-Pack Nutrition Labelling | Included |
| 25 | Lessons from the Australia-UK Free Trade Agreement | Excluded |
| 26 | Who influences nutrition policy space using international trade and investment agreements? A global stakeholder analysis | Included |
| 27 | Formula Review on Pre-packaged Food - CIRS Group | Excluded |
| 28 | Part 2 - Analysis and feedback- Nutrition labelling compliance test | Included |
| 29 | CXS 234-1999 | Included |
| 30 | CFR - Code of Federal Regulations Title 21 - FDA | Included |
| 31 | Framework for selecting and testing of food products to assess quality related characteristics: EU harmonised testing methodology | Included |
| 32 | Testing requirements for export of food items | Sigmatest | Included |
| 33 | Trade and nutrition policy coherence: a framing analysis and Australian case study | Included |
| 34 | Food Standards Code | Included |
| 35 | Food and Nutrition: Policy and Regulatory Issues | Included |
| 36 | Ultra-Processed Foods: Definitions and Policy Issues | Included |
| 37 | UK-India Free Trade Agreement the UK’s Strategic Approach | Excluded |
| 38 | Export Requirements by Country and Jurisdiction (A-F) | Excluded |
Revision log
Published: 5 May 2023
Last updated: 7 May 2024