Guaranteeing Healthy Meat

Abstract

European Union (EU) consumer policy should provide essential health and safety requirements and safeguard economic interests to ensure a high level of protection and meet the expectations of citizens throughout the EU. Products placed on the market must be safe and consumers should receive the relevant information to make appropriate choices. Today the impact of genomics is certainly lower in the meat sector than in the plant origin product sector. Nevertheless, the slow genetic improvement of livestock, implemented empirically in the nineteenth century and more scientifically in the twentieth century, could probably be speeded up in the short term by genomic technologies. But nowadays consumer concerns cannot be overlooked as they were in the past.