BEEF LABELLING

BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission is examining whether the European Union's (EU) beef labelling system identifying relevant slaughterhouses and farms, should be reformed to enable beef to be stamped 'made in the EU'. Under the current EU system, countries of origin are named, causing, claims the Commission in a report, some "re-nationalisation" of the beef trade, especially in retail. This reform should only affect processors preparing beef for final consumption, it suggested. Brussels also noted problems respecting the system's requirements for ...


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