The Minister of Agriculture has ordered increased control of import of poultry meat

The Minister of Agriculture has ordered increased control of imported poultry meat in order to protect Hungarian consumers from contaminated import goods – the Minister told M1 news channel on Wednesday.

Fazekas Sándor, Minister of Agriculture, pointed out that chicken eggs, contaminated with fipronil were transported to 21 countries of the European Union (EU) and there was a risk that contaminated chicken meat could be marketed as well.

According to the Minister, the EU’s food safety and animal health system needs to be tightened, standards should be tightened as well and more controls are needed to restore confidence in EU food production. (MTI)