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Denmark allows more poultry sales at the barn door

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Eggs, chicken meat, duck and geese limit in sales has been raised to encourage small local producers.

Posted on Mar 29 ,06:51

From Easter onwards, Danish food producers can sell significantly more eggs and cleaned geese, ducks and chickens - both directly to consumers at the barn door and to local shops and restaurants. The possibilities will be expanded when the Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Rasmus Prehn changes the rules for, among other things, barn door sales.
"The previous limits on sales have helped to put a damper on consumers' opportunities to buy local raw materials in rural areas. And at the same time, the rules have made it difficult for local enthusiasts and smaller food producers to get a sensible business out of their sales," says Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Rasmus Prehn.

The more lenient rules come into force on March 26, 2021. From then on, a local egg producer must sell just over 300,000 eggs from 1,000 hens a year instead of the 100,000 eggs from 500 hens that have been the limit so far. A local producer of geese, ducks and chickens is allowed to sell up to 2,000 poultry a year against the previous 500 poultry. In both cases, producers do not have to take more salmonella samples than before.
Equally important, many consumers can now also avoid having to clean the goose for intestines, gizzards and heart. The local poultry producer must also take care of this task, without first having to register as a retail company with the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration. The new, more lenient Danish rules are based on risk assessments from the DTU Food Institute.

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