EU ban on pigswill is extended
06 August 2001 by Osborn via Nuttall
A ban on the feeding of restaurant food waste to pigs will apply throughout all 15 European Union countries from next July, EU government ministers have agreed.
The ban will form part of a directive on the control of classical swine fever.
In Britain the Government banned the use of all catering waste that contains, or has had contact with, meat as swill to livestock after concerns that it was the source of foot-and-mouth disease (Caterer, 10 May, page 5).
It is estimated just 1.4% of UK pigs were fed on catering waste. By contrast, Germany and Austria still rely heavily on waste food to feed pigs.
