If the professional wishes to modify his recipe, he will have to have it validated by the repression of fraud, which will give him a derogation of a maximum duration of three months, provided that the modification does not put in danger the safety of consumers of consumers .
Le Monde with AFP
To cope with “supply tensions” on certain ingredients based on egg or poultry, in a context of avian flu epidemic, the State will authorize the food industry to temporarily change the revenues of Certain products without the labels mentioning it immediately, according to a press release published Monday August 29.
“The avian influenza epidemic, which has been rampant in France since November 2021, affects the supply of the food industry for the production of certain foodstuffs made from eggs or ovoproducts [products obtained from ‘A component of the egg] or ingredients from poultry “such as duck fat, explains the general management of competition, consumption and repression of fraud (DGCCRF) in A press release .
When the “GMO” mentions “,” from organic farming “,” raised without antibiotic treatments “,” raised outdoors “or” origin France “is not respected, information should be” explicit “On the packaging by adding a label or masking the mention concerned, for example. On the other hand, when the explicit mention is not possible on a product which benefits from a derogation, a simple mention “derog” will be registered.
For example, in a product like duck rillette, the state allows to replace “part of the meat and/or duck fat” with “meat and/or chicken fat”, Subject, however, that the final product “contains a minimum of 40 % duck meat and 20 % duck fat”, details the DGCCRF.
The virus, which has led to the slaughter of more than nineteen million poultry in recent months, has also touched the sectors upstream of poultry farming which provide chicks and canetons, rendering the discounts In more difficult production.
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Because of these tensions, “some manufacturers are forced to make composition changes in a period of time incompatible with the printing of new packaging” and the authorities have therefore decided “to guarantee continuity in supply of products concerned “to grant” temporary derogations to certain labeling obligations “.
If the professional wishes to modify his recipe, he will have to have it validated by the repression of the fraud which will give him a derogation of a maximum duration of three months, provided that the modification does not put in danger the safety of consumers and that the supply difficulties are “proven and important”.
The State had already authorized, in recent months, manufacturers to temporarily modify the composition of certain food and cosmetic products using sunflower oil, to respond to the difficulties of supply due to the war in Ukraine, the world’s leading exporter of sunflower oil.
The space of the site of the repression of frauds identifying the changes of recipes counted Monday afternoon nearly 4,500 references concerned: chips, gnocchi, sauces, processed products, prepared fish or desserts, for example. The sunflower is also present in many products, such as chocolates, in the form of lecithin, an additive.