Food Agency: The name of the Ikea sheep steak cannot be a sheep steak
Food|One third of Ikea’s sheep steak is beef.
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According to the Food Agency, Ikea’s sheep steak is misleading, as only 45 % of the product is lamb.
30 % of Ikea’s sheep steak is beef, which, according to the Food Agency, should be reflected in the name of the product.
The Food Agency has urged local food control authorities to intervene and communicate information to Ikea and the steak manufacturer.
In the yoke The sheep steak, which is available at Easter throughout the country, is misleading, outlines the Food Agency.
Hs reported On Tuesday, Ikea’s seasonal product, sheep steak, in reality only 45 percent is lamb. 30 % of the steak is beef.
« Sheep steak is part of the seasonal season. The product content of the product is 75 percent. Most of the product’s meat portion is lamb. The steak is filled with garlic herb. Marjukka Hilden reported by email on Tuesday.
Food control works in such a way that the Food Agency directs and manages food control and the implementation of food legislation in Finland, but the powers of the municipalities are responsible for the food control authorities.
Now the specialist in the food agency Tuulikki Lehto Has asked Espoo and Vantaa’s food control to intervene in the name of a sheep steak. The idea is that through this, the information will also be transferred to Ikea and the steak manufacturer.
« The name of the product must be revealed by the beef, because beef is also so dominant. »
Ikea sheep steaks are manufactured by Finnish Lagerblad Foods, which sells their products for wholesale.
Corporate Director of Product Development and Partnership Timo Luotonen says that some of the sheep products began to increase beef four to five years ago when the price of sheep meat rose to the sky.
“The price remained moderate,” Luotonen says.
According to Luotonen, a bun or steak is named according to the most meat in it. If most of the sheep is, let’s be a sheep steak.
As the steak is subcontracted to Ikea, the authorities need to go through the entire production chain.
« Every player is responsible for the name, but of course the (product) manufacturer has quite a big role, » says Lehto.
According to Lehdo, the steak served by Ikea is an example of a product that can be challenging.
« Because it is not an official name that comes directly from legislation and not quite directly from the established name. »
For example, a well -established name would be a Kiev chicken or a wiener clip.
« Usually, when forming the name of the food, you have to take into account what the most important ingredients are. Usually the largest components determine and affect the naming of the food. »
However, the Food Agency has not determined the limited limit values for the ingredients of different products, which would determine under which name which product can be called. Situations are always considered on a case -by -case basis, says Lehto.
“We have sought to guide the naming of a food, among other things In the Food Information Guide. ”
