INDUSTRY DEMANDS STRICTER CONTROLS AND SANCTIONS FOLLOWING VEVIBA SCANDAL

BELGIUM must act as soon as possible to restore consumer confidence in the meat it buys from supermarkets following a meat fraud scandal involving Belgian meat trader Veviba, the national Belgian federation of slaughterhouses - FEBEV, the country’s farmers’ union, its meat industry and retailers are saying. The issued a joint statement following Belgian food safety agency AFSCA’s announcement that Hong Kong, the Ivory Coast and Kosovo had received falsely labelled, out-of-date or even inedible meat distributed by Wallonia-based food company Veviba. FEBEV ...


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