No more meat names for vegetable products in France

The new decree laying down this will enter into force in France on 10 October. Then it is no longer possible to use the terminology of the sectors traditionally associated with meat and fish to designate non-animal products. Animal foods that contain vegetable proteins in a certain proportion are exempt from this ban. A list of meat designations and a corresponding maximum percentage of vegetable proteins has been drawn up by the French government. For example, bacon may contain no more than 0.5 percent vegetable protein on a dry matter basis to be allowed to be called bacon. In the case of meat hash, this may be no more than 7 percent. For the French consumer, the use of meat product names is clear. Plant-based protein products that have been legally manufactured or marketed in another Member State of the European Union or in Turkey may still have meat names. In the European Union, an agreement applies within the framework of the European Economic Area. That is why those ...