NFU Scotland’s latest shelfwatch, looking at almost 35,000 packs of pork, bacon and gammon in 47 supermarket stores, has found consumers often struggle to identify where the meat has come from.
Marks & Spencer, Co-op and Waitrose were the only supermarkets found to offer 100 per cent British pork, bacon and gammon. All other supermarkets were found to be stocking fresh and processed pork, bacon and gammon products from a wide range of different countries of origin, including the UK, Denmark, Holland, Germany and Ireland.
Some own-label and branded products were labelled with more than one country of origin such as ‘Germany and Holland’ or even as broadly labelled as just ‘EU’. All too often, packs had no clear indication of where the meat had actually come from.