EU TO ASK CONSUMERS IF LABELLING SHOULD INCLUDE STUNNING METHOD
November 1st, 2012
BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS
THE EUROPEAN Commission will launch a study next year to ask consumers whether they would like meat products labels to contain information about stunning methods used before the animal was slaughtered, said Denis Simonin, animal welfare chief at the European Commission's health and consumer directorate general. "We will ask consumers how far they are interested by such information and what kind of information they would want to know", said Simonin, speaking at a European Meat Forum event, organised in the European Parliament ...
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