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The Poultrymeat Marketing Regulation permits a certain amount of unavoidable added (extraneous) water during the processing and cooling of whole chicken, and chicken and turkey parts. When there is more added water in the chicken/turkey than laid down in the Regulation, then a declaration has to be added to the label in the format ("Content of water above the EC limits"). The French Government DGCCRF ( Direction Générale de la Concurrence, de la Consommation et de la Répression des Fraudes), conducted its annual study to measure the limits of extraneous water in 44 samples of frozen and chilled whole chicken (11), and chicken and turkey parts (33) collected from both processing plants, and wholesale and retail outlets.

Of the 44 samples, 10 (23%) did not conform to the Regulation limits of extraneous water, and all of these were poultry parts. Seven warnings were issued and one action taken by the police as a result    of the study.

Read the article at: French poultry study

Also read the summary of the DGCCRF's study in French at: DGCCRF study

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