Second Belgian company exported to Kosovo

Media in Belgium, which are reporting on the broken meat scandal in their country, meat that was exported to Kosovo as well from the company “Vevaba” from Bastogne, have discovered that this is not the only company that has exported rotten meat to our country.

Belgian public broadcaster, French language, RTBF, has reported that even the company “Vanlommel” from Herentals, specialising in beef, has been caught sending rotten meat to Kosovo.

However, according to the company, this was only “a human error”.

Last August, a 20-tonn amount of meat with signature labels “Vanlommel” has been seized at the Kosovo border. This is after the meat destined for our consumer had expired for use, Time.net broadcasts.

The address to Kosovo for accepting this meat has been the company “Europa IDA”, the same company involved in the “Vevaba” scandal.

And again we announced FASFC ( Federal Agency for Food Safety) and destroyed all the amount of meat in order not to reach Kosovo consumer”, a spokesperson for the Kosovar Food Safety Agency said. RTBF.

Meanwhile, the commercial director of “Vanlommel”, Johann Heylen, has said this was simply a human error. “It was a mistake on our part. We, of course, have repaid the consumer for the costs caused. Kosovo authorities have noticed it at the border. We've taken our responsibility. This isn't about cheating. The labels were accurate, but it is true that the meat had expired for three weeks, for the frozen meat, which normally has life spans of up to two years, but it had expired for 3 weeks”, says Heylen, broadcast Koha.net.

Days earlier, Belgian media discovered a broken - down meat scandal that, although in a small way, was also sold on the local market. Mostly, the rotten meat had had had had an export destination, and part of that export was Kosovo.