T/GDOAA 0042-2025 Quality specification for ultra organic chickens

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This document specifies the terms and definitions of the quality standards for ultra-organic chickens, including farming environment, introduction, feed requirements, and management, processing, quality requirements, and inspection quality management systems. This document applies to the quality standards for ultra-organic chickens in organic production. The ultra-organic chickens covered by this document meet the safety index limit requirements of GB 2762/2763/31650 and demonstrate significantly improved functional nutritional indicators after third-party testing. With consumers' increasing demand for food safety and nutritional health, China's poultry industry urgently needs to establish quality benchmarks exceeding conventional standards. The National "14th Five-Year Plan for Green Agricultural Development in China" and the "Guiding Opinions on High-Quality Development of Poultry Breeding Industry" explicitly propose to "develop ecological circular agriculture and strengthen the supply of high-quality poultry products". As a major poultry-consuming province, Guangdong produced 1.89548 million tons of poultry in 2024, accounting for 7.12% of the national total, but issues such as antibiotic abuse and heavy metal residues still constrain industry upgrading. Wang Anli, a professor and doctoral supervisor at South China Normal University, former dean of the School of Life Sciences, and a recipient of the State Council Special Allowance, summarizes the technological achievements of ultra-organic ecological agriculture as follows: 1. Compliance with current national farming and planting standards; 2. Absence of antibiotics, hormones, pesticide residues, and four heavy metals (mercury, arsenic, lead, and cadmium) in end products; 3. High content of three functional components: total amino acids, flavor amino acids, and high-unsaturated fatty acids (for livestock) or taurine (for poultry and aquatic animals). 4. Comparable to organic food in terms of "332

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