The low quality chicken bought as a result of a number of rigged biddings to deliver it to education institutions and the National Army is from Ukraine, said the acting head of the National Union of Agricultural Producers Associations “UniAgroProtect” Alexandru Slusari. In a press statement, this says the authorities were repeatedly warned about the unequal conditions in which the national and Ukrainian poultry producers work, IPN reports.

According to him, at the beginning of this year, when import quotas were imposed on a number of Ukrainian food products, chicken was ultimately excluded from this list. Thus, according to the chicken import statistics for the first ten months of this year, imports from the neighboring state almost trebled.

“The importers of poultry from Ukraine permanently win the biddings, mainly because a lot of chicken is 40-50% injected with water and this significantly decreases production costs. By all standards, the highest humidity norm for chicken is 5%. Besides the fact that the consumers are cheated, the meat injected with large quantities of water spoils quickly,” said Alexandru Slusari.

He also said that this information shows that the national poultry producers must be protected by all possible tariff and nontariff methods.