2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
During the Easter inspections in the whole country, the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency detained 52 tons of lamb meat only for the last 3 months of the inspections.
The most common violation of the meat offered in our country is the lack of documents of origin. Much of the lamb was also confiscated because it was stored at inappropriate temperature conditions.
Eggs and Easter cakes are also checked by Agnecia, but the results are expected later, Nova TV reports.
20 prescriptions and 11 acts of various violators were issued.
Lamb producers are massively dissatisfied because their products were bought at low prices before the holiday, although in retail chains the price of lamb jumped for Easter.
The lamb for the holiday is sold for an average of BGN 13, and the producers in our country say that it was bought at 3 times lower prices.
The main problem is that farmers are small, unaffiliated, ununited. If the breeders join forces, they will be the stronger party in the negotiation, commented the Minister of Agriculture and Food Desislava Taneva.
Because Bulgarian lamb is sold at higher prices, our people preferred imported meat for the holiday, despite calls from the home ministry to buy Bulgarian.
For the Easter table, Bulgarians have chosen to make homemade Easter cake instead of buying it, even from bakeries that offer it without preservatives.
However, Minister Taneva says that we should not worry even if the E's are embedded in the Easter cake.
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