INDUSTRY DEMANDS STRICTER CONTROLS AND SANCTIONS FOLLOWING VEVIBA SCANDAL
March 1st, 2018
BELGIUM must act as soon as possible to restore consumer confidence in the meat it buys from supermarkets following a meat fraud scandal involving Belgian meat trader Veviba, the national Belgian federation of slaughterhouses - FEBEV, the country’s farmers’ union, its meat industry and retailers are saying.
The issued a joint statement following Belgian food safety agency AFSCA’s announcement that Hong Kong, the Ivory Coast and Kosovo had received falsely labelled, out-of-date or even inedible meat distributed by Wallonia-based food company Veviba.
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