Sat, Nov 21 2009

Milk products produced with vegetable oils to be sold separately

Tue, Feb 03 2009 16:54 CET byPetar Kostadinov 1112 Views
Milk products produced with vegetable oils to be sold separately

Photo: Krassimir Youskeseliev

By the end of February all shops selling dairy products in Bulgaria will have to separate items containing vegetable oils, the National Veterinary Service (NVS) said on February 3 2009.

Over the next couple of days the NVS will publish on its website a list of 40 dairy producers, out of 247 registered, who have stated that they use vegetable oils in their products. The move comes after several reports of dairy products being sold on the Bulgarian market without any indication as to their contents.

"By separating the products on different stands every consumer will be able to pick what he or she wants," NVS head Yordan Voinov told Bulgarian National Television on February 3 2009.

"Bulgaria will be the first European Union country to do that," he said. The NVS was also thinking of reintroducing the quality standard for the production of dairy and meat products. It will be given to any product manufactured according to a traditional Bulgarian recipe which would serve as a guarantee for quality. The standard used to exists for several decades when Bulgaria was a socialist republic. Today, many people still associate it with good quality.

NVS is expected to come up with the quality standard within a few days. The standard will not be obligatory for every food producer but will show that its products have been made in accordance with Bulgarian traditions, Voinov said.

Write comment

Name:Comment:

Generate new code
Send your comment
Brussels extends cow farm revamp deadline to 2012

The new administration of Bulgaria's agriculture ministry plans to apply for technical assistance to help farmers comply with European requirements through special coaching. A paltry 3000 farms have so far met the criteria and supply quality milk to dairies.

Discussing agriculture and safe dairy products

Bulgarian Agriculture Minister Valeri Tsvetanov and Lithuanian ambassador to Bulgaria Arūnas Vinčiūnas talked about how their countries can support each other in improving Bulgaria's livestock and crop cultivation practices.

Arsenic poisoning continues to threaten the people of Poibrene

Residents of the village of Poibrene, along with members from the coalition Cyanide Free Bulgaria, were to submit a declaration to the Ministry of Environment and Waters at 11am on January 20 2009 and stage a protest outside the ministry building. The declaration presented several demands, of which banning of the use of cyanide in Chelopech mine,

Bulgaria's Piccadilly food chain throws out plastic bags

Bulgaria's Varna-based supermarket operator Piccadilly will replace with polydegralex bags the polyethylene bags used in all of its 19 stores as of January 12 2009, the company said.

More in this category

Seventy per cent of Bulgarian smokers wanted to quit, survey says

Bulgaria ranks third in the world in terms of smoking, after Japan and Greece.

Globul, Germanos turn in 2182kg of phone parts for recycling

Globul Green as an initiative attempts to promote and initiate not only increased environmental awareness among the Bulgarian population, but also to reduce its own carbon footprint. The company has saved over 34 068kg of paper, or the equivalent of 800 trees saved

Resort village construction planned in Karadere nature reserve

Previously, the Madara Bulgarian Property Fund, listed at the London Stock Exchange wanted to to build a resort village with 15 000 capacity spanning the entire bay area. The controversial building project contemplated to be directly on the shore was eventually frozen indefinitely in light of the global economic downturn.

Bulgaria to oppose EU proposal for reduced turbot quotas

Bulgaria's Agriculture and Food Ministry said that it would not support the proposed reduction of turbot quotas for 2010, saying reductions would harm local industry.

Peugeot iOn to be launched in Bulgaria at end-2010

Along with the rest of Europe, Bulgaria will see the all-electric Peugeot iOn appear in December 2010, Bulgarian Peugeot dealer said.

© 2000-2009, Sofia Echo Media Ltd.

Web Design by RIZN

Sofia Echo Media is part of the Economedia Group.
The news and information content on this website is provided by our editorial team and is copyrighted. Any unauthorised reproduction or use of it is strictly forbidden. Reproduction of this website's content is permitted only with prior written permission from the Editor-in-Chief, should be propertly acredited and provide an active link back to our site. Comments posted by the website's visitors are independent of the editorial materials and do not represent the views of sofiaecho.com. Sofia Echo Media cannot be held responsible for the statements contained in visitor comments. The percentаge change in the shares' prices are based on the price of the last transaction of the current session compared to the price of the last transaction of the previous session. Bulgarian Stock Exchange data is not real-time, but updated every 15 minutes, and should not be used as a basis for decisions about buying or selling stock options.