A new import fiasco from ESK: 4th grade imports have stirred up the markets!

SADETTİN İNAN / The Meat and Milk Board's (MMB) import operation to stabilize the market caused a major disappointment and a wave of crisis in the meat sector. Meat companies, restaurateurs, and butchers, relying on the MMB's commitment to imported butchered animals, stopped slaughtering from the market. However, it turned out that the incoming meat was a major failure both in terms of quantity and quality. The MMB, aiming to curb the rapid rise in slaughter prices, contacted firms individually, asking them not to slaughter from the market. The Board committed that the butchered animals to be imported from Uruguay would be cut and distributed to firms in the requested quantities. In line with this, 12,000 butchered animals were imported from Uruguay. The animals, which were offloaded from the port on Saturday, were transported to slaughterhouses and slaughtered. The resulting carcass meats were sold to firms at 410 TL/kg. The firms receiving the meat were in shock. Because the ...