06 May 2010
Several farms where salmonella outbreaks were reported allegedly continued to sell their chickens to companies abroad.
While Danish food authorities and the poultry industry are struggling to keep foreign chickens with salmonella out of the country, infected meat is still being exported for sale abroad, reports financial daily Børsen.
The poultry industry has made efforts in recent years to have its domestically-sold chicken be 100 percent salmonella free. But that hasn’t prevented farmers from shipping those birds that don’t meet that requirement to foreign slaughterhouses, according to independent industry association DFP.
According to DFP’s figures, there were 26 Danish poultry farms where salmonella outbreaks were registered that still shipped their product abroad last year. By doing so the producers were able to avoid violating the stringent requirements that ensure no salmonella-infected poultry is sold to Danish consumers.