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The Meat Processors' Association said it would replace the word sodium chloride with the amount of salt on meat labels this year to make product information more understandable.
The new labels will be put on by the end of 2014, and the change was made to make it easier for consumers, as it turned out that most customers do not know the meaning of the word sodium chloride.
In addition, the Association intends to indicate on the meat labels the date of freezing of the product. This information will be provided to consumers even if the meat is sold chilled.
A change affecting the labels of the fish is also being considered, proposing that a package containing several pieces of meat be labeled "molded meat".
On the casing of the sausages, on the other hand, information will be written as to whether the product is edible or not.
The Association of Meat Processors clarifies that these changes are not expected to affect the prices of local products.
It is intended that from April 2015 consumers will be informed about the origin of the meat they buy. The label on the package must indicate where the animal was born, raised and killed.
The chief expert Dilyana Popova explains that if the animal in question was born in one country and raised and killed in another, both countries will be written on the label of the meat.
For this to happen, however, there is one condition - the stay of the animal to be a specific period of time. For pigs the requirement is at least 4 months, for birds - 1 month, and for goats and sheep - not less than half a year.
Similar labels have already been introduced in Brussels since the regulation was promulgated on 13 December 2013.
Until now, only the headquarters of the processing company were written on the labels, but there was no information where the raw material came from.
New and stricter rules on meat labeling are being introduced across Europe a year after it was rocked by the horsemeat mega-scandal that was offered as beef.
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