HYGIENE PACKAGE
July 1st, 2002
BY ALAN OSBORNTHE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed revised European Union-wide rules for health controls on meat as part of a new package of hygiene measures designed to step up food safety in the EU. These would implement a science-based approach to meat inspection, which Brussels said would protect the consumer from all main hazards linked to the consumption of meat.The new regulations, it said, would bring the "farm to fork" concept into the meat inspection system, insisting on a continuous flow of information between primary production and slaughterhouses. ...
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