EUROPEAN MEAT MARKET STABLE DESPITE RUSSIAN EMBARGO, BRUSSELS EXPERT SAYS

THE EUROPEAN meat market is not in crisis following the embargo imposed by Russia on meat from the European Union (EU), a European Commission expert has told globalmeatnews.com.Looking at price levels and producers’ margins, Dr Kai-Uwe Sprenger, market officer for animal products at the European Commission’s directorate general (DG) for agriculture, said that there are no significant variations in these two areas so far.“We have stable prices on pork and even slightly increasing prices on poultry,” he explained. While there has been a little drop in beef ...


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