ROMANIA CLEARED TO SELL PIG MEAT TO REST OF EU
December 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ROMANIAN pigmeat exporters have been told they can at last allow its pigmeat exporters to sell into the rest of the European Union (EU), lifting a ban existing since Romania joined the EU in January 2007 over swine flu control concerns. These have now been allayed by a "channelled system" of exports, said a note from the European Commission, whose standing committee on the food chain and animal health made the decision.
These restrict Romanian pigmeat and related products destined for EU markets to designated farms using high-quality ...
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