They repackage imported eggs and chicken in Bulgaria and sell them for domestic ones

The relabeling of imported eggs and chicken meat in our warehouses continues to be one of the main problems in the poultry sector, said the chairman of the Industrial Poultry Association, Daniel Bozhankov. "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 are lying to the consumer about what he is really buying," 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. According to Bozhankov, after the ...