Due to unexpected reasons, the price of Hungarians’ favorite meat may rise considerably

The reporting obligation for imported pork is an administrative burden for sellers, transporters, and many meat product manufacturers, and all of this can also be reflected in the costs, said the For the agricultural sector the president of the Meat Association, Tamás Éder.

The expert hhe said, but this measure can also help in filtering items such as the salmonella-infected German meat that appeared in one of the domestic retail chains last year.

Therefore, the price of pork may increase

Just like that we also reported on Dívány, cheap imports from Ukraine pose a serious threat to the European meat sector. Not only the favorable purchase price, but possible relabeling and food safety the decision-makers were also concerned about the discrepancies between the tests, when they accepted the tightening of the administrative rules for meat in recent weeks. Although mostly chicken comes from Ukraine, since the Eastern European country itself also needs to import pork, the Hungarian government recently restrictions on Ukrainian agricultural products in addition, it adopted other measures concerning imports. For those agricultural products that are prohibited to be imported from Ukraine, imposes a full reporting obligation the government, not only if it comes from Ukraine affected by the salmonella infection, but also from other countries, so pork produced by Hungarian producers is also affected by the new rules.

In addition to chicken, products subject to notification include “fresh, chilled or frozen pork”.

According to the experts interviewed by the Agricultural Sector, this will have an impact for the price of pork in Hungary also, since the new type of administration brings additional costs to production.

Tamás Éder, the president of the Meat Association, told the newspaper: the fact that products belonging to the “Fresh, chilled or frozen pork” category must now be declared at home means a kind of administrative duplication of work, which may cause unwanted difficulties for those involved. It is a burden for the retail chains who want to buy from imports, as well as for those Hungarian meat product manufacturers who buy raw materials from imports because they cannot find adequate quantities at home.

In fact, it is an administrative burden, which means additional costs for all those involved in the transaction, hence this is also reflected in the costs. It’s not a big expense, but nowadays every HUF counts

said the specialist.

Chicken with salmonella is the reason why pork can become more expensive

As known, More than from Ukraine 200,000 tons of chicken meat were sold to the European Union. The cheap meat is in high demand and, according to experts, it also attracts traders who try to circumvent the rules by relabelling. In relation to poultry meat of unknown origin, salmonella infection represents the greatest danger a British citizen has already fallen victim in recent days, many have been recovering from blood poisoning ever since.

In the past period in the territory of the European Union at least 23 people were hospitalized, 6 with blood poisoning they sufferedand one person in the UK died after eating Ukrainian poultry contaminated with salmonella.