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[size=85:pnb6qb87]Regal retail July 19, 2010
In August there will be standards introduced for meat products

By the beginning of August there will be standards introduced for the production of nine types of meat products - meatball, kebabche, minced, karnache, raw sausage, frankfurter, sausage, boiled sausage and boiled-smoked lasting Shpekov salami.

Standards will be developed by the Expert Council for Food Safety at the National Veterinary Service in cooperation with the Association of Meat Processors in Bulgaria and leading technologists in meat processing. They will be mandatory for manufacturers, but the products produced by them will have certain protected names and logos.

Standards, names and logo will be established by order of the Director General of the NVS. Control of production will be performed by the State animal health control.

WOT!! NO half hundred weight tubes of spam in the Magazine??? My neighbour will be disappointed!!

This is very good and a sign that they are trying to follow the rules

sarah

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Angry Farmers: Govt Dooms Bulgarians to Eating Frozen Irish Meat

Over 200 Bulgarian farmers staged a protest rally in Sofia slamming the policies of the Borisov Cabinet and the Ministry of Agriculture and Foods.

"
Stop the Murder of the Farming"
and "
Minister Naydenov – Liquidator of the Bulgarian Animal Breeding Sector"
, read some of the banners of the angry protesters who gathered in front of the building of the Ministry of Agriculture.

The participants in the protest were convinced that it depends on the pending decisions in the sector whether "
Bulgaria will eat Bulgarian meat, or frozen meet imported from Ireland"
, for example.

"
We are here for the funeral of the Bulgarian cattle-breeding. Our minister doesn't want Bulgarian production, only imported food. We are on the verge of collapsing,"
said a farmer as cited by BGNES.

The farmers presented numerous grievances – ranging from new taxes and sanctions imposed on them for the 2009 harvest, to low milk and meat prices, and a number of other difficulties.

In their protest declaration to Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, Finance Minister Simeon Djankov, and Agriculture Minister Miroslav Naydenov the farmers state that Ministry and its institutions are staging a discriminatory policy against small and medium-sized farms from the underdeveloped regions of the country, and against the producers of organic foods.

They insist on the immediate payment of subsidies for mountain and underdeveloped regions.

The farmers further demand that all subsidies for green agriculture and organic food be paid by May 15, 2011.

Their declaration has been supported by the Bulgarian By-products Association, the National Association of Animal Breeders in Bulgaria, the National Association of Milk and Meat Producers in Bulgaria, and the National Association of Young Farmers in Bulgaria.