NEW EU RULES ON ANIMAL WELFARE COULD KNOCK POULTRY MEAT QUALITY, INDUSTRY REPRESENTATIVE SAYS
October 1st, 2012
BY CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS
NEW European Union (EU) rules on animal welfare applying from January 2013 might depress the quality of EU-made poultry meat, a spokesman for a major Dutch poultry producer told an international conference in Brussels on the protection of animals in slaughterhouses. David Barker, of Netherlands-based Marel Stork Poultry Processing, was speaking on Wednesday at a conference organised by the European Commission directorate general for health and consumers (DG SANCO), the EU's current president Cyprus and EU meat industry association the ...
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