Denmark-Problems with the Middle East.

DENMARK-HALAL MEAT SPECIFICATIONS UP THE ANTI.

Poultry producers are scrambling to save their exports to the Middle East after reports there that Danish chicken is injected with pig protein

Denmark’s multi-million kroner export of chickens to the Middle East is in danger after a TV report created confusion about methods used by poultry producers to increase the sale weight of their products.

A TV2 report last week showed that water and salt can be injected into slaughtered chickens in order to increase their sale weight, and that the process meant that chicken breasts contain as much as 40 percent salt and water.. During the programme, a similar process using pork protein was described.

The programme, however, never stated that the procedure was not used by poultry producers, and based on the broadcast media in the Middle East have begun to warn consumers that chicken exported from Denmark contains pork, in violation of Muslim dietary restrictions.

One Saudi Arabian newspaper, Al Watan, reported that 40 percent of all Danish chickens contain pork and water, according to the Danish Embassy in Riyadh.

The embassy has requested that the newspaper and other organisations that have reported the news issue a correction.