American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Approves Five New Environmental Standards

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For Immediate Release

American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Approves Five New Environmental Standards

First American National Standards Dealing with Livestock Production

KANSAS, LENEXA, Apr. 29 -/E-Wire/-- SES, Inc. announces that in the April 5, 2002 edition of "Standards Action, Volume 33, Number 8 (http://www.ansi.org) the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has approved five distinct American National Standards (ANS) relative to environmental stewardship in livestock and poultry production. The accredited standards developer, National Pork Producers Council (NPPC), developed these standards in close cooperation with other major livestock groups. These documents outline a consistent set of voluntary standards that American livestock producers can use to evaluate their environmental management practices.

Development of these ANS involved a rigorous examination of information obtained from many sources, including the livestock industry, academia, and governmental sources. With a balanced representation, this diverse canvass group arrived at consensus on acceptable environmental standards for livestock and poultry production.

The standards, named Good Environmental Livestock Production Practices (GELPP), are based on management rather than engineering approaches; and they focus on desired environmental outcomes, not the process used to achieve the outcomes. Results of national environmental management assessments of livestock facilities, such as those conducted under the On-Farm Assessment and Environmental Review (OFAER) Program, have shown that conformance with best management practices (BMP) can be an effective way to foster environmental stewardship.

The GELPP standards address the five fundamental concentrated livestock production risk areas: 1) General Site Conditions, 2) Production Areas, 3) Outdoor Manure and Storm Water Storage, 4) Manure Utilization, and 5) Mortality Management.

The GELPPs are the only livestock related ANSI approved standards and will provide long overdue aid to the confined livestock production industry by presenting essential environmental management and protection practices in a voluntary, standard format. In addition, the ANSI standards will provide confined livestock producers the opportunity to obtain independent certification of their environmental stewardship.

Independent certification will have wide-ranging implications on public perception, insurance, or lending, relative to a certified farm. Now financial organizations such as insurers and lending institutions have a set of standards to use to guide decisions regarding transactions associated with livestock production.

More information regarding the standards can be obtained at the website www.ses- corp.com. For more information contact Eric Hess, SES, Inc., Tel.: (913) 307- 0046. E-mail: [REDACTED-EMAIL].

Eric Hess, Vice President, SES, Inc., 8208 Melrose Drive, Suite 105, Lenexa,Kansas 66215, (913) 307-0046 extension 15, [REDACTED-EMAIL]

http://www.ses-corp.com

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