NORWAY MEAT LABELLING TOO WEAK SAYS EFTA
February 1st, 2017
THE NORWEGIAN government has been told to improve its labelling controls for meat products, foodstuffs containing meat and additives used within such products. The European Free Trade Area (EFTA) Surveillance Authority has told Norway to tighten its monitoring and traceability systems following an inspection of the country’s meat labelling systems late last year (2016).
The authority concluded that Norway was breaching European Union (EU) meat labelling laws in this way – as a member of the EU-associated European Economic Area (EEA), Norway must follow these ...
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