FAQ

BRC stand for Britisch Retail Consortium. It conserns a food standard that has been established by the Britisch retailers. Nowadays this standard is worldwide accepted and requested by most retailers. It garantees a complete control of the foodchain from farmer to consumer, based on procedures, controlpoints, tracebility and registrations.

Deli Ostrich has the BRC certification on higher level (highest possible) and this since 2003. It garantees you a top quality product!

We use the international limits as for fresh traditional meats. Even when some of our products are derived from hunted animals, we succeed in complying with these limits. This due to a strict hygiene program during the production process and a constant monitoring of temperatures.

CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) is an international agreement between Governments. Its aim is to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival.

Widespread information nowadays about the endangered status of many prominent species, such as the tiger and elephants, might make the need for such a convention seem obvious. But at the time when the ideas for CITES were first formed, in the 1960s, international discussion of the regulation of wildlife trade for conservation purposes was something relatively new. With hindsight, the need for CITES is clear. Annually, international wildlife trade is estimated to be worth billions of dollars and to include hundreds of millions of plant and animal specimens. The trade is diverse, ranging from live animals and plants to a vast array of wildlife products derived from them, including food products, exotic leather goods, wooden musical instruments, timber, tourist curios and medicines. Levels of exploitation of some animal and plant species are high and the trade in them, together with other factors, such as habitat loss, is capable of heavily depleting their populations and even bringing some species close to extinction. Many wildlife species in trade are not endangered, but the existence of an agreement to ensure the sustainability of the trade is important in order to safeguard these resources for the future.

Because the trade in wild animals and plants crosses borders between countries, the effort to regulate it requires international cooperation to safeguard certain species from over-exploitation. CITES was conceived in the spirit of such cooperation. Today, it accords varying degrees of protection to more than 30,000 species of animals and plants, whether they are traded as live specimens, fur coats or dried herbs.

CITES was drafted as a result of a resolution adopted in 1963 at a meeting of members of IUCN (The World Conservation Union). The text of the Convention was finally agreed at a meeting of representatives of 80 countries in Washington DC., United States of America, on 3 March 1973,, and on 1 July 1975 CITES entered in force. The original of the Convention was deposited with the Depositary Government in the Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish languages, each version being equally authentic.

CITES is an international agreement to which States (countries) adhere voluntarily. States that have agreed to be bound by the Convention ('joined' CITES) are known as Parties. Although CITES is legally binding on the Parties – in other words they have to implement the Convention – it does not take the place of national laws. Rather it provides a framework to be respected by each Party, which has to adopt its own domestic legislation to ensure that CITES is implemented at the national level.

For many years CITES has been among the conservation agreements with the largest membership, with now 169 Parties.

Kangaroos are completly wild. Commercial shooting of kangaroos is requested to control their numbers and risc of overpopulation. This action is highly selective with an extreme male bias (80%). This selectively results from the greater commercial attractiveness of the larger kangaroos and the fact that there is a pronounced sexual dimophism in the three species with males being much larger than females  of the same age.

In commercial kangaroo shooting, the proportion of mature females increases and reproductive potential should also rise, so a priori reasoning indicates population protection.

Antelopes are farmed in Southern Africa. But pls do not misunderstand the meaning of this farms in comparence with European farms. We are talking about farms from 3 to 30.000 hectares, where these animals are raised in their complete natural habitat. The only reason we talk about " game-farms " is because these farms are fenced and free of natural preditors. These animals and products are "Pure Nature".

Ostriches are slaughtered at an age of 12 to 14 months. The main reason for farming ostriches is their skin. The high value exclusive ostrich leather can only be obtained when the feather follicules are well formed. Therefor they need to have at least 10 months.