MEPS BACK EXTENSION OF MANDATORY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN LABELLING TO MEAT PRODUCTS
June 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
COMPULSORY country-of-origin food labelling could become mandatory for all meat and poultry products sold in the European Union (EU) after it was accepted by the European Parliament. MEPs also approved country-of-origin labelling for meat and poultry used as processed food ingredients, albeit subject to impact assessments protecting manufacturers from excessive administration. And they accepted proposals that meat labels should indicate where livestock was born, reared and slaughtered, with meat produced from slaughter without stunning (through ...
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