Livestock and Meat

The meat wholesale markets were characterized by declining sales of beef due to subdued demand. However, since the beef supply was not urgent, the prices at the individual levels of trade changed little. At the slaughterhouse level, the development was slightly inconsistent. Cows for slaughter were only very scarce in the whole of Germany. The slaughterhouses therefore had to increase their payout prices, in some cases significantly, in order to stimulate the producers' willingness to sell. Due to the limited marketing opportunities for young bull meat, the slaughterhouses were more reluctant to price male slaughter cattle. If the supply was not too plentiful, the prices mostly held up. The federal funding for young bulls in class R3 rose by two cents to 2,54 euros per kilogram of slaughter weight, while that for slaughter cows 03 increased by five cents to 1,71 euros per kilogram. Local companies in France were able to enforce price surcharges in the mail order business with cow meat. In contrast, business with the southern European countries was more restrained. - In the coming week, beef prices are likely to remain stable to firm, as the continued limited supply due to stock purchases for the Easter business is likely to meet increasing demand. - The entire range of veal was requested very quickly, with the catering industry in particular showing demand. As in the previous week, the providers received EUR 4,36 per kilogram of slaughter weight for lump-sum slaughtered calves. - The prices for farm calves held their ground with slightly increased demand.

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Cattle prices attached

The number of cattle slaughtered fell significantly in some important EU countries in February. The prices for young bulls tended to be inconsistent, but on average there were slight surcharges. Cows and pigs for slaughter were rated noticeably more firmly than in January. While chicken prices changed little, demands for turkeys tended to be weak. As usual for the season, egg sales were subdued and prices fell. The milk supply has been reduced in several EU countries, as quotas are threatened to be exceeded. The quotes for dairy products often showed a tendency to weakness.

Beef cattle and pigs for slaughter

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Self-praise for World Consumer Day

"After three years I can draw a positive balance on consumer protection. In all areas of economic and health consumer protection, we have tackled the core issues and completed important projects. I will continue to systematically implement the consumer protection action plan," said Federal Consumer Minister Renate Künast on March 15, 2004 in Berlin. Telephone and internet

Central plans for the next few months are stricter regulations for 0190 numbers and SPAM. "With the new law to combat the misuse of 0190/0900 value-added service numbers, we have taken a major step towards strengthening consumer rights in the telecommunications market," said Künast. The law ensures more transparency in the market and gives the regulatory authority for telecommunications and post (RegTP) effective means to prevent misuse. Another important success is that, from August this year, the price obligation will also apply when using value-added services via mobile communications. Because of the violation of the requirements of this law, 400 so-called dialers were taken offline by the RegTP for the first time last October. The minister pointed out that she was pushing for the law to be expanded to include 000 numbers in the upcoming amendment to the Telecommunications Customer Protection Ordinance (TKV) and the Telecommunications Numbering Ordinance (TKNV).

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Workshop of the junior association - result in April with von Cube - lecture

The Junior Association of the German Fleischerhandwerk eV has dealt with itself and its future in a workshop in Kassel. Together with the well-known personnel and management consultant Dr. Christian Richter from Müchnen, the extended board of butchers' junior teams developed a model for the junior association. The future work of the young professionals will therefore be under the motto: "Connect with joy, exchange and realize". At the same time, a vision statement was developed, a detailed description of which path the butchery junior would like to pursue in their association work in the future.

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After years of research, Finnish scientists were able to trace back an outbreak of infection with the pathogen Yersinia (Y.) pseudotuberculosis in humans to the consumption of iceberg lettuce contaminated with deer faeces. You have now published your results in the journal "Journal of Infectious Diseases". This was the first time that an infection with Y. pseudotuberculosis was attributed to a food. Like Salmonella and Escherichia coli, Yersinia belong to the Enterobacteriaceae family. Yersinia cause a clinical picture with fever and abdominal pain in humans, which doctors often think of appendicitis.

In 1998, 47 people in Finland contracted an infection with Yersinia, which could initially be traced back to the cafeterias of four schools and one factory cafeteria. Based on this, a horticultural company was identified that delivered iceberg lettuce to the cafeterias. At the edge of the fields and in the spring used for irrigation, the scientists found large amounts of deer droppings, which contained massive amounts of Y. pseudotuberculosis. The irrigation system and water inlets were not fenced off.

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Germany is one of the most research-intensive locations in the field of organic farming. At the status seminar "Departmental Research for Organic Agriculture 2004", the Federal Research Centers and Leibniz Institutes in the business area of ​​the Federal Ministry of Consumers (BMVEL) gave an insight into the range of their current research topics in the fields of plants, animals and humans. More than 5 interested people accepted the invitation of the "Organic Farming" working group of the Senate of the Federal Research Centers to the Federal Biological Research Center for Agriculture and Forestry (BBA) in Kleinmachnow near Berlin.

"Even within departmental research, organic farming cannot only be dealt with at a single institute," emphasized Dr. Gerold Rahmann, head of the Institute for Organic Agriculture of the Federal Research Center for Agriculture (FAL) and spokesman for the Senate working group. Contributions from all research institutions of the BMVEL underlined this statement impressively. The Senate working group makes a significant contribution to the networking of these research achievements - among other things through the annual status seminars initiated last year. This series of seminars is already shining far into the professional world. This was made clear by the presence of representatives from 45 institutions such as universities, state institutes, associations and independent research institutes.

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Georg Wolf, Managing Director of Nestlé Foodservice GmbH, Frankfurt was elected as the new chairman of the AK Food Service on March 5.03.04th, XNUMX. His deputy is Rolf Eick, managing director of Rickmer's Reismühle, Bremen.

The Federal Association of the German Food Industry eV coordinates the Food Service working group, which examines and discusses the topics of market trends, customer structures, manufacturing systems, wholesale, social catering, company catering and GM marketing. Participants in the working group are important providers from the food industry, communal catering, trade, media and market research.

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Sonnleitner announced campaigns and bundles of measures

The current milk price is immoral and ruinous for the dairy farmers, the President of the German Farmers' Association (DBV), Gerd Sonnleitner, said on Deutschlandfunk. The dairy farmers desperately needed better prices. Even the best farms could not produce milk for less than 30 cents, so that an average dairy farm would need a higher milk price. Sonnleitner harshly criticized the behavior of the discounters in the current price and listing talks with the dairies. Although dairy farmers in Germany are in dire straits because of 20 percent lower prices, the food trade continues to put pressure on prices. According to Sonnleitner, the DBV Presidium has decided to continue protesting against food retailers and discounters in all federal states, should price pressure continue to be exerted on the dairies in the price and listing talks currently taking place.

Sonnleitner explained the bundle of measures that the DBV presidium had decided one day after the protests of 1.500 Bavarian dairy farmers in front of distribution centers in front of Aldi and Lidl. The dairies and dairy farmers should be on an equal footing with the food retail sector. There are opportunities for this via sales offices to bundle the product range. But competition law should also be applied in such a way that the position of the many small dairies is improved compared to the few large food retailers. The farmers' association itself will in future publicly communicate those dairies that constantly break and undercut prices so that they will answer to the farmers. The DBV also arranged further talks and negotiations with those responsible for the dairies in order to highlight the dairy farmers' difficult situation. In addition to fair prices, the supreme premise for the discounters is to put the market in order in order to gain further scope for price improvements, emphasized Sonnleitner.

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Due to the decreasing pig population, pork production in the Netherlands in 2004 will be roughly the same as in the previous year. The reduced pig population will mainly affect the export of slaughter pigs and piglets. These forecasts were made by the Livestock, Meat and Eggs Economic Group on the basis of data from the Netherlands Central Bureau of Statistics (Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek CBS).

The reduction in the Dutch pig population is in line with developments across the EU. In 2004 the pig population will also decrease in France, Italy and Belgium. However, the expected slight increase in Germany, Spain and Denmark will not be able to compensate for the decline as a whole.
In December 2003 the pig population in the Netherlands was 10.8 million animals, around 3,5% lower than in December 2002. This decrease in the pig population translates into an estimated decrease in pig production to 19,4 million animals (- 4,2%) result in 2004. This is to be compensated exclusively by the reduced export of meat pigs (- 19,8%) and piglets (- 9,8%).

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Food manufacturers who want to sell their by-products to the Dutch feed industry must also include these products in their quality assurance. This is one of the requirements of the Dutch Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP +) code for the use of by-products as a raw material for animal feed. With this specification, the quality of by-products is also effectively ensured.

Animal feed production in the Netherlands is carried out in accordance with the requirements of the Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP +) code. Hygienic production conditions are one of the first requirements. Of course, this also applies to the production of raw materials for the animal feed industry.

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If you replace 100 grams of meat with 100 grams of “meat substitutes”, you cannot assume that you are getting as much protein, vitamins and minerals at the same time. A number of foods therefore require a multiple of 100 grams. This is the result of the Dutch research institute TNO Nutrition. If you want to get the same amount of iron with tofu that you get from 100 grams of beef, you have to eat a lot, because that requires around 500 to 600 grams of tofu. Zinc and vitamin B6 are also much easier to use from meat.

A balanced diet is very important for maintaining good health. Many food manufacturers indicate the nutritional values ​​of their products on their packaging. The regulations for this are laid down in Europe in Council Directive 90/496 / EEC of September 24, 1990 on the nutritional labeling of foods. The indication of nutritional values ​​can support health-conscious consumers in putting together their healthy diet.

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