Meat products from Eastern Europe and Russia. Quality, marketability and consumer expectation.

摘要

Since 1 May 2004, ten new member states have joined to make it the world's greatest single market. In 2004/2005, Russia was the most important customer of beef produced in the European Union. Furthermore, Germany, with a contribution of 11%, became Russia's most important global export trading partner. In 2003, about 1 t of Russian sausages were imported into Germany. Poland is the largest food manufacturer of the new EEC members. Small and middle-sized businesses do most of the meat processing. As a result of the EU enlargement food products from Eastern Europe can now be acquired more easily by the consumer. In 2004, average consumption of meat products in Germany was 30.8 kg per person, which was about half of the annual meat consumption of 60.7 kg/head. Quality was investigated in selected meat products from Eastern Europe and Russia. Organoleptic quality, chemical composition, the microbial flora, contents of bovine and porcine CNS and the animal species were defined. Only 8 (29%) of 28 tested meat products were assessed as marketable.