12:32 01.11.2013

Ukrainian pork will come to EU market earlier than beef, says veterinary watchdog

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The European market will be opened for supplies of Ukrainian pork earlier than for beef, Deputy Head of State Veterinary and Phytosanitary Service of Ukraine Vitaliy Bashynsky has said.

"Beef is a very risky issue, and it 90% depends on the law organization in Ukraine. If there is no law on the identification of [cattle] and traceability, beef will not be able to come to the EU market," he told reporters at the international conference on food safety entitled "Reforming the Food Safety System in Ukraine: a Model for the Future" in Kyiv on Thursday, October 31.

"It's easier with pork. Large commodity producers with a closed production cycle will first come to the market: those who have their own reproduction, meat processing and slaughtering facilities," he said.

Bashynsky said that companies that will be able to prove the safety of their products at all production stages – from the fields, where fodder is produced, then the feeding of animals to detecting veterinary drug remainders in meat - will have an advantage in receiving a permits to export meat to the European Union.

As for permits on supply of poultry to the European Union to several Ukrainian producers, he said that the decisive role would play on the fact that they have as closed a production cycle as possible. He said that poultry is the most profitable product.

As reported, in July 2013 three factories of MHP and Agromars received the right to supply its products to the European Union countries.

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