MEPS AND COMMISSION CLASH OVER PIGMEAT AND POULTRY LABELLING
February 1st, 2014
A POLITICAL struggle has broken out over planned new European Union (EU) origin labelling rules for pigmeat and poultry – which could delay their entry in law.The European Parliament yesterday (Thursday) opposed a labelling system drafted by the European Commission that would allow pork to be labelled as “reared” in a particular EU country if a pig had lived there for just four months, or one month for chickens. They could however been born elsewhere.MEPs said that the existing stricter origin labelling law in place for beef should apply to pigmeat and ...
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