SWANSEA University has been presented with a Good Farm Animal Welfare Award for its work to help improve the welfare of farm animals.

The university has won a Good Egg Award for its commitment in using only high-welfare eggs for their catering.

Catering manager Les Carmichael said: "The Good Egg Award underpins Swansea University's intent on supporting the improvement of animal welfare and ethical procurement.

"We support improvement of animal welfare by ensuring that our meat suppliers, when commercially viable, is red tractor certified, this now applies to all our fresh chicken purchased.

"We also have freedom food certification for our purchase of pork, and we are also progressing with an application for the soil association food mark.

"Our ethical procurement culminates in being the first Welsh Fairtrade university, we are also accredited by the Vegetarian Society, we locally purchase as much food and beverages as possible, and we showcase this every March with our Welsh food festival."

Katy Read, head of food business at Compassion in World Farming, said: "It is so great to see the public sector's catering departments taking animal welfare into consideration when sourcing their meat and egg produce. Higher welfare produce isn't just the responsibility of the large corporations, but something that can be achieved at all levels."