As early as this spring, meat and meat products of German origin can begin to be marked with labels at meat counters, although, according to Agrarheute, the relevant economic actors are still negotiating. Nevertheless, according to the statement of Friedrich-Otto Ripke, the president of the German Poultry Industry Association (ZDG), meat products produced in Germany can be marked separately in supermarkets as early as spring.
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For now, the discussion is about the voluntary marking of the origin of meat. The president of the ZDG considers it important to mark the origin of the meat, and if everyone involved agrees, they can finalize the label as early as spring. He expects all major players in the German food retail industry to take up the nomination. Since April 2019, the private sector has marked the animal husbandry technology on meat products sold in German food retail, according to a uniform system, if the producing farm participates in some kind of animal welfare initiative. The Federal Minister of Agriculture at the time, Julia Klöckner, called the nomination insufficient when it was introduced, in her opinion, the nomination system developed by the federal state would have been better. However, it was not implemented. The EU labeling system for unprocessed but prepackaged poultry, sheep, pork and goat meat is also mandatory in Germany: the country or countries where the animals were raised and ...
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