Imported eggs and chicken are sold as Bulgarian

Relabelling of imported eggs and chicken meat in our sheds continues to be one of the main problems in the poultry sector. This is what the chairman of the Association of Industrial Poultry Breeding, Daniel Bozhankov, told Radio Varna. "Products that are not of very clear origin enter Bulgaria. Eggs and meat enter from Ukraine, only as imports from Romania or Poland. Then they go to some of our warehouses or packaging workshops and reach the market network as Bulgarian. This is a very serious problem for the sector, since we do not have traceability of the goods themselves, and thus we lie to the consumer about what he is actually buying from the store," explained Bozhankov. State authorities are working on this case, but so far there is no particular progress, said the chairman of the Association for Industrial Poultry Breeding. He and his colleagues have repeatedly alerted the state institutions about the problem, for the solution of which it is necessary to make legal changes. ...