Meat Industry and its Impact on Food Safety in Kosovo
Session
Food Science and Technology
Description
In Kosovo there are 43 slaughterhouses and 51 licensed meat processing factories, whereas, most of the meat produced is consumed directly by rural households, as most of the cattle are slaughtered on the farm and unlicensed and informal operators posing a risk to the health of consumers. The study included 11 slaughterhouses and 12 meat processors throughout the territory of the Republic of Kosovo through standard questionnaires and straightforward surveys and some results have been produced. In the surveyed factories, it turns out that 50 percent of them have slaughterhouses themselves, 41.7 percent import cattle (Serbia, Croatia, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania) and slaughter them in their slaughterhouses, 75% import mainly meat from Brazil, Spain and the EU. The products they sell are: fresh meat (34.6%), sausage (29.5%), salami (15.8%) and the rest are bacon, hot dog, kebab, burger, pate. 66.7 percent of them are certified with ISO 22000 and 9001. An unresolved problem remains being slaughtered outside the slaughterhouse, without confirmation of the veterinarian, especially in rural areas where slaughter is done only for household purposes, risking to a high degree the food safety in Kosovo and not certification of a large number of operators in the meat industry.
Keywords:
Meat Industry, Meat Products, Food Safety, Certification, ISO
Session Chair
Xhavit Bytyqi
Session Co-Chair
Violeta Lajqi
Proceedings Editor
Edmond Hajrizi
ISBN
978-9951-437-69-1
Location
Pristina, Kosovo
Start Date
27-10-2018 3:15 PM
End Date
27-10-2018 4:45 PM
DOI
10.33107/ubt-ic.2018.176
Recommended Citation
Zeqiri, Medin; Bytyçi, Xhavit; Pire, Ergent; Rizani, Smajl; and Biçokus, Ylli, "Meat Industry and its Impact on Food Safety in Kosovo" (2018). UBT International Conference. 176.
https://knowledgecenter.ubt-uni.net/conference/2018/all-events/176
Meat Industry and its Impact on Food Safety in Kosovo
Pristina, Kosovo
In Kosovo there are 43 slaughterhouses and 51 licensed meat processing factories, whereas, most of the meat produced is consumed directly by rural households, as most of the cattle are slaughtered on the farm and unlicensed and informal operators posing a risk to the health of consumers. The study included 11 slaughterhouses and 12 meat processors throughout the territory of the Republic of Kosovo through standard questionnaires and straightforward surveys and some results have been produced. In the surveyed factories, it turns out that 50 percent of them have slaughterhouses themselves, 41.7 percent import cattle (Serbia, Croatia, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania) and slaughter them in their slaughterhouses, 75% import mainly meat from Brazil, Spain and the EU. The products they sell are: fresh meat (34.6%), sausage (29.5%), salami (15.8%) and the rest are bacon, hot dog, kebab, burger, pate. 66.7 percent of them are certified with ISO 22000 and 9001. An unresolved problem remains being slaughtered outside the slaughterhouse, without confirmation of the veterinarian, especially in rural areas where slaughter is done only for household purposes, risking to a high degree the food safety in Kosovo and not certification of a large number of operators in the meat industry.