date:May 22, 2013
s to slaughterhouses and other traders. No specific authority oversees their activities.
France also called on the EU to allow member states to help processed food makers to include the origin of meat in labels while waiting for an EU-wide policy.
An EU deal on labelling may be hard to reach as media attention is fading and consumers turn back to cheap low-quality food, Consumer Affairs Minister Benoit Hamon said.
It is clear that when news is not so hot, rather mild, on issues of economic fr