EU CONSIDERS TIGHTENING FOOD FRAUD CONTROLS – BUT HOW FAR SHOULD IT GO?
October 1st, 2013
EUROPEAN Union (EU) regulators are tangling with the difficulty of tightening rules-of-origin for meat products, given the potentially significant number of manufacturing stages required. The European Commission and European Parliament have been considering their response to the horse meat labelling scandal. Commission officials are mulling insisting on partial origin labelling, noting only where a source animal was finished and slaughtered, not processed, canned, packaged or retailed. And a draft European Parliament report has called for EU food chain controls ...
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