Bovine youth meat to be sold in shops

The economic entities will have to indicate the sex and age of the slaughtered animals on the label at every stage of producing, importing and selling beef, in accordance with the amendments to the sanitary-veterinary norms approved by the Government, Info-Prim Neo reports. When the butchered animals are eight months and younger, the commercial name indicated must be ‘calf meat’. When the animals are older than eight months, but younger than 12 months, the name must be ‘bovine youth meat”, while when they are older than a year – ‘beef’. There must be also indicated the sex of the animals and if they reproduced or not. Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry Vasile Bumacov said the calf meat and beef have specific qualities and the consumers must know the given information. “The proposed amendments are aimed at ensuring compliance with the standards used in the EU and form part of the common animal identification and registration system. They ensure the traceability of the animals and products of animal origin,” said the minister. He stressed it is very important that these requirements are observed when producing, importing and selling beef on the home market and when exporting the given products to the EU, within the system of autonomous trade preferences, as well as when Moldova obtains the status of third country for the export of products of animal origin to the EU.