Fermented Milk Products insights

The brand "Bulgarian State Standard" (BDS) guarantees only the production of yogurt or white brine cheese on the territory of Bulgaria. However, the raw material, whether in the form of the feed with which the animals are fed or the milk from which the finished product is produced, is quite often imported from abroad. This was commented by Simeon Karakolev - Chairman of the National Sheep and Goat Breeding Association before the BNR. "Until last year, the Bulgarian state standard did not distinguish between what milk was used in the product authorized under BDS. Thus, it becomes a standard that controls only the recipe for the product - cheese or yellow cheese. The most important thing that consumers do not know is that BDS does not limit what milk will be used, he commented. In defense of own production and support towards Bulgarian livestock breeders and producers with requests from the association "Bulgarian Traditional Dairy Products" in 2023. a new standard is being introduced under the name “Protected

The development of the agro-processing sector is one of the priority directions of the government's actions aimed at increasing the share of products with high added value in the export structure of Ukraine

The volume of foreign trade in dairy products in the first half of October amounted to $20.4 million and increased by 7.8% compared to the first half of September ($19.8 million)