Top quality only without rework
Bavarian judges against the commercial exploitation of broken sausages in awarded quality sausages
The Bavarian Administrative Court (BayVGH) ruled in two rulings on March 12, 2013 that meat and sausage products made using broken products, reworked sausage or reprocessed sausage meat are not highlighted with references such as “delicacy or top quality” in the May be brought into circulation.The plaintiff in the case Az. 9 B 09.2135, a major butcher from the Upper Palatinate, was unsuccessful in her action against a decision prohibiting her from bringing meat products into circulation with such prominent information before the Regensburg Administrative Court. In the case Az. 9 B 09.2162, the administrative court in Munich, at the request of a local meat product manufacturer, determined that cooked sausage products that are produced with further processing of heated meat can be described as "top quality" without misleading the consumer.