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Title : Survey of French frozen chicken finds 23% contains too much water
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Source : New Food
Year : 2018
Link : https://www.newfoodmagazine.com/news/63792/french-frozen-chicken-contains-water/
Country : France
Commodity: AP-Meat and edible offal
Abstract: Survey of French frozen chicken finds 23% contains too much water. Samples of chicken of varying national origin were taken from 37 different establishments in France and tested for compliance with European water-content regulation. POULET CONGELE: Some of the samples came from other EU countriesA survey has found that nearly a quarter of French frozen chicken samples exceeded the European Union’s limits for unacknowledged water content. The results of the Direction Générale de la Concurrence, de la Consommation et de la Répression des Fraudes’ (DGCCRF) annual study into the water control of frozen, quick-frozen or fresh poultry was published by on January 3.