The authorities are preparing standards regarding the quality for packing, labeling and transportation of meat cans, sausages, salamis and other meat products. A draft decision to this effect wad discussed in a recent meeting of officials in charge.

Contacted by IPN, Tatiana Nistorică, secretary of state at the Ministry of Agriculture, Regional Development and Environment, said that quality standards existed earlier too, but they were called technical regulations concerning meat products. Now that the legislation is adjusted to the EU’s, the name was changed.

The draft decision sets down quality standards for meat and meat products that will be used in the meat processing industry. “Given that new procedures and technological operations are implemented in the food industry, including the meat processing industry, it is recommended that all the regulations in the food sector should be unified,” stated Tatiana Nistorică.

The document will contain new definitions for the meat products that appeared on the market and haven’t been regulated so far, including commercial names.