Pork checks in supermarkets. "Polish" meat from Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany

Is the information provided by large-scale stores about the country of origin of pork true? This was verified by the Agricultural and Food Quality Inspection (IJHARS). "The inspection of the labeling of pork (packaged and loose) conducted in February 2025 throughout the country in large-scale retail stores revealed various irregularities in every tenth of the inspected batches of goods," the IJHARS reports in a press release. Its employees verified the labeling of 164 batches of pork with a total weight of 2.2 tons. The irregularities they detected only concerned meat offered for sale without packaging. "In the case of five batches of meat marked as 'Polish' regarding the place of breeding and slaughter, inspectors identified that the information presented on the consumer label was false. In the case of two batches, the place of breeding and slaughter was Belgium, 2 batches of meat actually came from animals reared and slaughtered in Germany, and in one case the meat came from ...