Bulgaria's Agriculture Minister: Price of 'Real' Meat to Double

Politics » DOMESTIC | August 1, 2010, Sunday // 20:05
Bulgaria: Bulgaria's Agriculture Minister: Price of 'Real' Meat to Double According to the Bulgarian Agriculture Minister, Miroslav Naydenov, the prices of "real" meat products will be double. Photo by BGNES

The Bulgarian Agriculture Minister has announced that the price of meat products, produced by the Bulgarian state standard, will be double.

“Minced meat, which is in proportion 60:40 pork to veal, will cost about BGN 8. Minced meat from pure meat cannot cost BGN 4,”the Minister Miroslav Naydenov said Sunday in an interview for the Bulgarian private TV channel Nova TV.

The Bulgarian state standard will soon be implemented for meat products like minced meat, grilled oblong rissole, meatball, sausage and some boiled and smoked meat products.

Producers who use the state standard will be able to put the name of the standard, “Stara Planina”, on the products' labels.

Naydenov has also stated that Bulgaria does not have enough laboratories for food control.

“We will try to impose an overall control and when there are doubts, the product willg o to a laboratory,” the minister said.

The state standard will not be mandatory but rather recommendable, just like the already implemented state standard for Bulgarian yogurt.

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