Animal welfare policy

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At Agrosuper, our Animal Welfare Policy is governed by the five freedoms proposed by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), in addition to the regulations laid down by the Agriculture and Livestock Service (SAG).

Thanks to the health management we undertake—which includes developing and implementing various biosecurity, surveillance, contingency, prevention, and control plans—we generate safe and traceable results, as required by our Animal Welfare Policy.

As a company, we do not use hormones or antibiotics as growth promoters in our animals and we only use drugs when strictly necessary, always when prescribed by an authorized veterinarian.

Internal Regulations

Our Internal Regulations include a Code of Conduct that explicitly details zero tolerance of animal abuse. Our commitment includes not only ourselves but our suppliers, so that they meet the standards we expect.

Animal welfare management

Relationships

• Academia (collaboration agreements).
• Partnerships (ChileCarne and Asprocer).
• Chilean Animal Welfare Association.

Feed formulated by specialists

We prepare diets that fit the needs of each productive stage without restricting our animals’ needs.

Animals not subjected to genetic engineering or cloning

Transfers not exceeding 8 hours

We transport efficiently, monitored by the logistics team. This, added to the geographical proximity of the facilities, allows us to ensure that animal transfers do not exceed 8 hours, complying with legal requirements and good practice guidelines.

All animals are desensitized prior to slaughter

All animals receive timely and appropriate treatment according to their needs

The above is based on management by veterinary teams of the Deputy Management Office for Health for each species.

Environmental enrichment

Given the success of the environ – mental enrichment contest in pigs, a practice that improves the animals’ environment by providing them with toys and other elements of trust, we decided to expand this initiative to chicken production.

At no time during the production cycle of our birds do we use cages.

Animal welfare 360°

We train our employees, contractors and suppliers on Animal Welfare to ensure compliance with the required standards and foster a culture of respect, ethics and responsibility in the handling of animals.

Service Providers

We require our contractors to certify that their employees who directly interact with our animals are trained in animal welfare.

Transportation Providers

There is a contract exhibit exclusive to animal welfare that allows us to ensure compliance with our animal welfare requirements.

Employees

We regularly train all our employees on animal welfare issues using various communication channels such as internal training programs, third-party collaborations, and content on our social network JAM.

Practices and agreements

Chickens

• Catching is done in silence to avoid stress.

• We have implemented an in-ovo vaccination machine at the Lo Miranda Hatchery, which allows us to vaccinate the chicks before hatching, reducing stress.

Pigs

• We do not clip their tusks.
• We use trucks with lifts that facilitate the entry of the pigs.
• We enrich the pigs’ environment with toys and other elements that encourage their natural behaviors.
• We work in a pilot gestation pen, where we have cameras that allow us to monitor the females and learn from their behavior, so we can make the best decisions regarding their management and welfare.
• We use intradermal, needle-free vaccination technology, minimizing stress.

Salmon

• We can only achieve healthy and sustainable production if our salmon are comfortable, free from diseases, and well fed, thereby able to behave normally.

Animal welfare is a consistent concern throughout the value chain. We can only achieve healthy and sustainable production if our salmon are comfortable, free of diseases, and well fed, to achieve normal behavior.

Transport

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We have an asset coordinator in charge of supervising preventive maintenance of our fleet to prevent accidents. We monitor animal transport on a 24/7 basis, detecting anomalies in the traffic, the truck or on the route so that transfer times do not exceed five hours.

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We use transportation vehicles (trucks and wellboats) that control density and constantly monitor the physiochemical parameters of the water. We use anesthetics prior to handling to decrease the stress of the fish.

Farm and cultivation

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We standardize our processes through an integrated management system, ensuring that all farm activities are in compliance with our policy.

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We constantly monitor the parameters of fresh and sea water.

Faena

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We apply protocols that ensure 100% pain-free animals. We ensure compliance with animal transport, unloading and handling protocols, with the permanent support and supervision of SAG.

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The animals are slaughtered with prior desensitization, a method that prevents animal suffering.

Freedoms guaranteed for our animals

Freedom from hunger and thirst.

Freedom from discomfort.

Freedom from pain or disease.

Freedom to express normal behavior.

Freedom from fear.

Biosecurity and health in production

At Agrosuper we have established prevention, mitigation and action mechanisms to address exposure to diseases at every stage of the production cycle. Along these lines, we work in direct coordination with the Chilean Agriculture and Livestock Service (SAG) and have internal surveillance programs, which include permanent monitoring of the sanitary status and daily review of our production parameters.

When a disease enters the country, we reinforce biosecurity measures. If an outbreak is detected in any of our production facilities, we immediately trigger the emergency protocols, which have already been established and coordinated with the SAG.

Health Management

We have a preventive approach, using all available tools that incorporate biosecurity. These include the use of vaccines, genetic and nutritional improvements, smolt quality, and improvements in production infrastructure to minimize the risk of disease occurrence.

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Cloverleaf Certification

100% of our farms have this certification for the entire production chain, including hatchery, transportation and slaughter.

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Validation of vaccines against piscirickettsiosis (SRS)

This is the main disease affecting fish in the sea stage and one of those with the greatest economic impact.

100% vaccine challenge test and obtaining RPS.

100% implementation of production strategy.