The German poultry industry sees an urgent need for improvement in the package of laws passed on Wednesday by the Federal Cabinet for more animal and environmental protection in agriculture. Concrete criticisms are the proposed voluntary nature of the state animal welfare mark ...
The federal government yesterday decided on a voluntary animal welfare label for pork. The new seal is only a "positive mark". Meat that contains this Lebel must be produced according to criteria that go beyond the "statutory minimum animal protection standard". This applies to the keeping, transport and slaughter of the animals ...
The German poultry industry stands for the responsible use of antibiotics and wants to make an active contribution to minimizing antibiotic resistance. This is what top representatives of the industry said on Wednesday in an interview with Federal Agriculture Minister Julia Klöckner ...
State Secretary Dr. On the occasion of the statements made by representatives of organic agriculture, Hermann Onko Aeikens stated that organic farmers could do more with the now planned animal welfare labeling ...
In the future, food in the European Union may contain a maximum of 2 grams of industrially produced trans fats per 100 grams of fat. The European Commission has decided ...
With an information booth at the FDP federal party conference in Berlin from Friday to Sunday, the German poultry industry brought the previously missing origin labeling of poultry meat in the catering trade into the center of the delegates' attention. The balance sheet after three intensive party congress days is very positive: Numerous high-ranking FDP representatives ...
The figures on genetic engineering research funding now presented by the Federal Government and the Testbiotech Association make it clear that the Federal Government runs the risk of repeating the mistakes of the past ...
Halal meat that has been slaughtered and therefore not stunned during slaughter may not bear an organic seal. This was decided by the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg this week ...
An event organized by the Bund Ökologische Lebensmittelwirtschaft (BÖLW) at BIOFACH focused on the changes that companies will be faced with as a result of the new organic law and where they will be developed ...
The nutritional trends in Germany are changing and with them the range of corresponding foods. For vegans and vegetarians there is an ever larger range of foods without ingredients of animal origin, including many meat substitutes such as B. "Vegetarian Schnitzel ...
The Packaging Act came into force on January 1.1.2019st, XNUMX and replaces the previous Packaging Ordinance. The new packaging law applies to everyone who sells packaging and / or places packaging on the market ...