Only impeccable milk can be placed on the Hungarian market
Hungary
Published Nov 16, 2021
Tridge summary
What tests are applied to dairy farms and dairies? Absolutely: what makes milk milk? György Pleva, Director of Food and Feed Safety of the National Food Chain Safety Office (Nébih) and Orsolya Szalay, Head of the Production Process Audit Department, were available to answer these questions.
Original content
The main task of the department is to control and evaluate the production processes of food of animal origin for the Hungarian market. What can we call milk in Hungary? - The European Union has legislation for this, and it clearly describes what we can call milk: the fluid extracted from the mammary glands of farmed animals. Cattle are the most common in Hungary, but sheep, goats and buffalo also produce enough milk for consumption and processing. It is important to emphasize that the authority controls food intended for public consumption, the product intended for own consumption does not fall within its competence. The staff of NÉBIH sometimes receives surprising questions and requests, we learned from the experts. Some people planned to make cheese from breast milk, and others wanted to market delicacies based on Far Eastern ingredients and recipes from the Far East - as a small-scale Hungarian product. Some were thinking of importing crocodile meat from Africa. Those requests ...
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