2. Product Categories

Meat Products
EU

This section provides the regulatory definition of the food category in scope, or the appropriate food category for the product in scope. Additionally, it provides the food products that belong to this food category along with the definition and specific information on each of these types of food products.

2.1 Category Name & Definition

Category Name

Meat Products or Meat Preparations [1].

Definition

‘Meat products’ means processed products resulting from the processing of meat or from the further processing of such processed products, so that the cut surface shows that the product no longer has the characteristics of fresh meat.

’Meat preparations’ means fresh meat, including meat that has been reduced to fragments, which has had foodstuffs, seasonings, or additives added to it, or which has undergone processes insufficient to modify the internal muscle fiber structure of the meat and thus to eliminate the characteristics of fresh meat. [1]

2.2 Product & Definition

N/A.

2.3 References

1. Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A02004R0853-20230215