Translation of "Transformation en morceaux monotones " (French → English) :

only preparations in which ingredients have been injected; meat preparations composed of meat parts that have been handled differently: minced, sliced or processed and that are combined together.

At the request of a Member State and/or the meat industry, the use of Acetylated distarch phosphate (E 1414) and Hydroxy propyl distarch phosphate (E 1442) to diminish leakage of water in preparations in which ingredients have been injected, in meat preparations composed of meat parts that have been handled differently: minced, sliced or processed and that are combined together, e.g. roulades containing minced meat and in order to maintain juiciness during the preparation of gyros, souvlaki, bifteki, soutzoukakikebap and seftalia have been considered and it is appropriate to ...[+++]authorise these uses.

Those uses should be authorised in meat preparations to which ingredients have been injected and in meat preparations composed of meat parts that have been handled differently: minced, sliced or processed and that are combined together, e.g. roulades containing minced meat.

If somebody wants to go to the extra expense of identifying which animals were born in Canada and make that connection all the way back to the farm—the real trick, once you get into the packing plant, is identifying all the different pieces of the animal that go in different directions and down different production lines—we're certainly in favour of allowing that to be labelled “Grown in Canada”.

This again is a very well-established international kind of approach where we, in the food industry at least, have some kind of understanding internationally now that when you have a chapter change in the harmonized code, so you bring in your meat in a fresh form, uncut, maybe in big chunks, and you then put it in a Canadian plant and you cook it, you wind up cutting it, you wind up processing it, you wind up putting it in pieces and bags and all those wonderful products that you've just seen, that becomes Canadian in the sense that it now can bear the Canadian inspection legend and it can be called a product of Canada, but in most cases ...[+++] we don't bother with that claim.

Cargill is also active in the supply of further processed chicken products (e.g., kievs, goujons, chicken nuggets) for which boneless chicken breast meat is used.